Timeline for Why is video tearing such a problem in Linux?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
20 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2020 at 14:15 | answer | added | cweiske | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 31, 2019 at 0:09 | history | edited | Braiam | edited tags | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 7:40 | answer | added | Dejan Petrovic | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 23:27 | answer | added | Stefan Reich | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 1:28 | answer | added | FuzzyTree | timeline score: 32 | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 17:50 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 16:09 | answer | added | Constantine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 7:37 | comment | added | inf3rno | @user10800 I tried with the latest kernel in the 3.16.x series. The results were the same, still tearing. When I tried to restore the old kernel, Cinnamon crashed after every reboot. According to some forums I should use 3.19.x and vivid drivers, but I am not sure that would not cause Mint or the actual DE to crash. I'll give it a try. That's all I can do with Mint. | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 2:05 | comment | added | Ten Bitcomb | @inf3rno The best practical answer I could figure out was to simply use a newer kernel than what gets shipped with "stable" distros, which are usually relatively ancient and don't have good support for even year or two old graphics cards. I've switched to using Debian testing and haven't had any tearing issues since. On a side note, I'd probably never use a "stable" version of Debian again for my own personal use. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 19:33 | comment | added | inf3rno | I got terrible tearing by Mint + Cinnamon, XFCE, Mate. I am testing further, maybe I'll find a distro, which I can use to watch youtube movies. | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 19:32 | vote | accept | Ten Bitcomb | ||
| Feb 4, 2015 at 23:04 | comment | added | Zan Lynx | With Nvidia compositing solved the problem for me, when I used to use Nvidia back in 2007. Not in full screen though because full screen windows turn off the compositor, it assumes you're going to run an OpenGL game I think. With Intel, have you tried setting Section "Device" Option "TearFree" "true" in X? It doubles video RAM use but I think it'll work. | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 20:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/563076330884202497 | ||
| Feb 4, 2015 at 16:28 | comment | added | labyrinth | My experience with tearing has been completely different. I'm a very happy gaming and watching movies on Linux. Steam has really made Linux a viable platform for great games. I've been playing Witcher 2 and Talos Principle lately, and I haven't seen any tearing in some 50 hours of game play. This is with an Nvidia card with proprietary drivers on Arch. I agree with Xen2050 that this question would be more useful if exact specs were given for your builds. I'm not denying there is a problem, I just have had a very good experience. | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 14:40 | comment | added | Angew is no longer proud of SO | This XKCD just seems to fit so well here... | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 9:07 | answer | added | orion | timeline score: 113 | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 7:22 | answer | added | kirill-a | timeline score: 19 | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 5:53 | comment | added | Xen2050 | How could one easily replicate the problem? In a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint computer? | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 5:09 | comment | added | Sparhawk | You don't mention which DE you use. KDE has been fine with tearing for a year or so now. | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 4:01 | history | asked | Ten Bitcomb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |