Intel 2.1.1 and HDTV tearing

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/17/07, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
> Hi xorg-ers,
>
> When displaying 1080p content on my LCD TV, connected using HDMI,
> through mplayer or any other player, using xv, gl, gl2, I always get
> some level of tearing.
>
> Nothing huge, but enough lag to be registered by the brain and become a
> bit annoying, especially when you are watching big moving sceneries.
>
> Is there any xorg.cong setting that I could use to minimize this, until
> motion compensation comes into the code?

Which intel chip do you have?  If you have one with an overlay try
using that rather than the texture adapter.

Alex