How to disable screen tear for i965 gpu chipset
by George528 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KF60)
I posted this question on gentoo's official forum 3 days ago but no one is answering, so i will duplicate the post here:
I am having problems with screen tearing. I tried found the solution to my problem for days.
First a background story:
My main DE is xfce, had no problems with screen tearing, then i wanted to try something new, and that was suckless dwm. Dwm doesnt provide a compositor by default, therefore i had screen tearing. I then installed picom and after lots of trial and errors i managed to make it work. Also i put this configuration https://dpaste.org/OLG3 in 20-intel.conf. Everyhing worked fine, but not for long.
I got performance issues. When i ran $ glxinfo -v | grep -i device i got this results:Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.1.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
I asked this question in Gentoo's official IRC and they told me to uninstall xf86-video-intel.
now after i run$ glxinfo -v | grep -i device i get this result: Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics (ILK) (0x46) after this i got a performance boost. But i got then screen tearing.
For /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf to work, it needs xf86-video-intel, without it, at boot, X server terminates with an error.
This is my flag: VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" in make.conf
How do i disable screen tearing without 20-intel.conf and xf86-video-intel. I want to use my real videocard card performance and dont get any screen tear.
What is the equivalent option of i965 for intel tearfree? Thanks
I am having problems with screen tearing. I tried found the solution to my problem for days.
First a background story:
My main DE is xfce, had no problems with screen tearing, then i wanted to try something new, and that was suckless dwm. Dwm doesnt provide a compositor by default, therefore i had screen tearing. I then installed picom and after lots of trial and errors i managed to make it work. Also i put this configuration https://dpaste.org/OLG3 in 20-intel.conf. Everyhing worked fine, but not for long.
I got performance issues. When i ran $ glxinfo -v | grep -i device i got this results:Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.1.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
I asked this question in Gentoo's official IRC and they told me to uninstall xf86-video-intel.
now after i run$ glxinfo -v | grep -i device i get this result: Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics (ILK) (0x46) after this i got a performance boost. But i got then screen tearing.
For /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf to work, it needs xf86-video-intel, without it, at boot, X server terminates with an error.
This is my flag: VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" in make.conf
How do i disable screen tearing without 20-intel.conf and xf86-video-intel. I want to use my real videocard card performance and dont get any screen tear.
What is the equivalent option of i965 for intel tearfree? Thanks