[Intel-gfx] Tearing video on Sandy Bridge

[tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 21:46:37 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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

Is this in the dri config file?

Regards,
Tino