Re: Intel modesetting and tearing
Greg V <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:22 PM, Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 16:03 Christian Weisgerber > <[email protected] <mailto:[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. When I still used X on my Intel laptop (of course with the modesetting DDX), I don't think GL acceleration of Firefox helped with tearing. (I always used GL accelerated Firefox anyway.) The solution was fiddling with compton flags, IIRC '--backend glx --vsync opengl-swc' was enough for the Intel GPU _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"