[Intel-gfx] Tearing video on Sandy Bridge

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:34:28PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 20:43:01 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The only way to get tear-free screen updates on snb is with pageflips,
> > which requires a opengl compositor
> 
> Thanks. What do you mean with "opengl compositor"? Isn't the Gnome3
> desktop providing this?

Well, it needs to do vsync'ed updates, and to work correctly, the client
also needs to do dri2 buffer swaps. Dunno where to set the former in gnome
3, for the later try a opengl output plugin (or libva).
-Daniel
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