[Intel-gfx] Fighting tearing

[Adam Jackson]

On 9/9/12 11:48 AM, Roberth Sjonøy wrote:

> WIth UXA, rendering of the windows in my XFCE4-desktop goes just
> fines, good performance, windows (exspecially GTK+) doesn't hang after
> if I drag them over the screen, but there is lot of small tearing.
> And I want this to go away, I do not use any kind of composition, and
> I am using XFCEs window manager.

So use a compositor.  X's rendering model, in the absence of a 
compositor, has no concept of vsync.  It's simply not possible to not tear.

- ajax