Screen tearing on NVIDIA Geforce 920M

[isacdan]

Hi,

I recently got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 5558) with a Geforce 920M card.
I get bad screen tearing on Linux Mint 17.3 when using the Nouveau drivers and even worse so when using the proprietary drivers. It doesn't matter what driver I use, I get bad screen tearing.
My Nvidia settings program doesn't have a Sync to vblank option. What should I do to get rid of the tearing?

[Pjotr]

Which versions of the proprietary driver have you used?

[isacdan]

Which versions of the proprietary driver have you used?

The latest. 352.63.

[Pjotr]

Which versions of the proprietary driver have you used?

The latest. 352.63.

Try the nvidia-358, by means of the graphics-drivers PPA:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... rivers-PPA
(item 1, left column)

[isacdan]

Which versions of the proprietary driver have you used?

The latest. 352.63.

Try the nvidia-358, by means of the graphics-drivers PPA:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... rivers-PPA
(item 1, left column)

I've tried the newer driver just now. I get the same tearing.

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[abh]

Hey guys,
Using the same laptop with the same GPU, getting a lot of screen tearing even with unity DE (I am using ubuntu), will post the details of inxi -Fxz in a while.
Thanks!

[mari5ha]

Hi all,
just to add I also have screen tearing on Linux mint 18.3 64bit Cinnamon with my laptop Asus u30sd:

inxi -Fxz

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System:    Host: asus-U30Sd Kernel: 4.10.0-42-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.6 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: U30Sd v: 1.0
           Bios: American Megatrends v: U30Sd.211 date: 07/06/2011
CPU:       Dual core Intel Pentium B940 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3) bmips: 7981
           clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 799 MHz 2: 799 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF119M [GeForce GT 520M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GT 520M/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.90 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-42-generic
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           driver: ath9k bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
           driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: a000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 504.1GB (15.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000BPVT size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Card_Reader size: 4.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 315G used: 37G (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 36.70GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 1.0:52C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3300
Info:      Processes: 258 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 1691.9/3860.1MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2

The same issue I already solve @Ubuntu 64bit using this manual (for the same laptop of course): https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... st13663158 but it doesn't work in a way that Prime synchronization is not enabled (there is no line added in xrandr --verbose ).
I am sure that this manual is capable to fix this issue, but for some reason doesnt work for Mint
Any suggestion pls?
Ty