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Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:58 am**

This wasn't an issue until my BFG Tech graphics card gave out. So I replaced it with PNY card with a better Nvidia GPU. Everything seems to work fine except for horrible horizontal tearing.

It happens even when I switch over to Metacity. I normally use Mutter which gives me a good compromise between compositing and vsync, but that doesn't work either. I tried compiz, but it doesn't work either(actually causes a "blockier" tearing) and I just don't want to use it.

In the Nvidia settings, I have tried setting both video texture and opengl to sync to vblank. That doesn't seem to have any effect. I get the exact same thing if I have both options disabled.

What the heck am I doing wrong!? I don't want to return an otherwise awesome graphics card.

Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:58 am**

Is the nvidia driver the correct one for the new card? If you have an xorg.conf, try deleting/renaming it then re-running nvidia-settings.

Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:34 pm**

remoulder wrote:Is the nvidia driver the correct one for the new card? If you have an xorg.conf, try deleting/renaming it then re-running nvidia-settings.

It should be, anyway. I didn't use a driver from the repos; None of them worked so I used the one specifically for this card from Nvidia and it worked.

I'll try the xorg.conf thing.

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:14 pm**

Okay, I reinstalled the latest driver and I had it create a new xorg.conf. Now I'm back to where I was; Still tearing in every window manager/compositor. No combination of settings seem to work.

I'd like to mention that I am also using dual monitors with twinview, but this was the way I had it working before. I have it set to sync to my main monitor.

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:38 am**

Mozenrath wrote:reinstalled the latest driver

The 'latest' driver is not always the best choice with nvidia cards, people sometimes report better results with different versions. I would suggest turning off any effects until you have a stable display, same for twinview. You might also want to consider completely removing any nvidia drivers as per https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... es-875447/ and starting afresh, IOW go back to basics. Mutter is not part of the standard mint system, so installing this may have affected things. Other than that I have no more suggestions.

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:05 pm**

remoulder wrote:
Mozenrath wrote:reinstalled the latest driver
The 'latest' driver is not always the best choice with nvidia cards, people sometimes report better results with different versions. I would suggest turning off any effects until you have a stable display, same for twinview. You might also want to consider completely removing any nvidia drivers as per https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... es-875447/ and starting afresh, IOW go back to basics. Mutter is not part of the standard mint system, so installing this may have affected things. Other than that I have no more suggestions.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but that's ridiculous that the 'latest' driver wouldn't work properly. I could find an older driver, but it would have to be from the Nvidia site because the nvidia-current for Mint 10 doesn't work(I get a screen full of random colors). The only way for me to get the newer one from the repos is to upgrade, which I really don't want to do because I use rely on my system to do graphic-intensive work and I don't want to somehow wreck it.

I don't think Mutter should have effected anything because it worked fine with my last Nvidia card. I often switch between Mutter/Compiz/Metacity due to my needs, and I get the same problem with Compiz and Metacity.

Posted: **Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:43 am**

Mozenrath wrote: that's ridiculous that the 'latest' driver wouldn't work properly

You may like to read my post again more carefully. I said sometime users report better results with other versions, just because a driver is the latest, does not always make it the best choice for a particular card, the Hardware Drivers applet normally offers a choice of versions. You asked for advice by posting here, if you choose not to take it that is up to you. Good luck in solving your problem.

Posted: **Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:27 am**

Hello
Sorry for bad english.
(LMDE xfce 64bit,Nvidia 9600GT, nv driver: 280.13)
When I turn vsync on in the nvidia x server settings windows, dont work. I can save the configuration to a file. But this configuration file dont work if I rename to xorg conf. So what can I do with this file to save the vsync setting?

I found this ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6106/nvidia-settings-user-guide.txt

So this is the key: nvidia-settings --load-config-only

but the output: http://pastebin.com/kqWcu7ws

Posted: **Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:45 pm**

This tearing issue is really bugging me. I don't want to have to buy yet another card.

I disabled twinview and there's no more tearing on my main monitor. But I need both monitors for the work I do, so I had to re-enable twinview and the tearing on my main monitor came back. There doesn't seem to be tearing on the other one.

Here's the driver I'm using. I can't figure out where to get an older driver that's compatible.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-disp ... river.html

The nvidia-current for Mint 10(260.19.06-0ubuntu1) just gives me complete distortion gobbledygook on my screen. Basically, it doesn't work.

Also, here's my xorg.conf file:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 280.13 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03.nvidia.com) Wed Jul 27 17:15:45 PDT 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Princeton Graphics VL158"
HorizSync 30.0 - 60.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GT 520"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "TwinView" "1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1680+141, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: 1680x1050_60 +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1680+141, DFP: 1680x1050_60 +0+0; CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0, DFP: 1680x1050_60_0 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

The Gateway monitor is my main monitor.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:36 pm**

Anybody?

Here's my output from xrandr:

xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 2704 x 1050, current 2704 x 1050, maximum 2704 x 1050
default connected 2704x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
2704x1050 50.0* 51.0

Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:35 pm**

I have not found another solution only compiz 'on'. :/

Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:03 am**

mbalazs81 wrote:I have not found another solution only compiz 'on'. :/

With my last card, running a compositor solved the vsync problem. Compiz worked but it really decreases FPS when using 3d applications. The reason I switched to Mutter was because I got some basic compositing without any noticeable difference from using Metacity with compositing turned off.

Now when I use Metacity or Compiz, I get multiple tear lines when pixels are changing on screen. My guess is that this happens because Compiz's vsync frequency is way off from the screen frequency. I only get one really slow tear line when using Mutter, which might mean that the vsync frequency for Mutter is closer but not quite close enough?

Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:19 pm**

So far, the closest I've gotten to solving the vsync problem is to use metacity with basic compositing turned on. I want some real compositing, though.

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:22 pm**

I'm running mate, and if I turn off compositing, VLC will play videos without tearing. Youtube, however, still has tearing, and inkscape also shows tearing when I draw shapes and things.

I have a desktop with an nvidia graphics card, and a laptop without one. Both have the same problem. If I go into nvidia x server settings, there isn't a setting to be found anywhere with regards to vsync. Do I need a specific package for this?

The fact that I'm getting tearing on the two different computers seems somehow significant to me.

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:47 am**

Solution:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:richardgv/compton
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install compton

To the startup: compton --vsync opengl

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