Re: Intel modesetting and tearing
Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 16:03 Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently switched from an obsolescent Radeon card to the built-in > Intel HD Graphics P4600 with i915kms.ko and the modesetting driver. > That works fine, but there is very noticeable tearing whenever > something moves on-screen. If you google for it, you'll find plenty > of complaints on Linux, so this is not a FreeBSD issue. > > For MPlayer, replacing the default Xvideo with GL video output (-vo gl) > eliminates tearing. > > And as I found out just today and quite by accident, in Firefox > toggling layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true will also eliminate > all tearing, whether from soft-scrolling or when playing YouTube > videos. Hallelujah! Woot?! You mean I can use modesetting AND have tearfree Firefox? Thanks for the tip!! I will use this until I switch i3 -> Sway. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"