Screen tearing

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nekohappi

Screen tearing

Post by nekohappi »

Hello, I am having screen tearing issues in linux mint cinnamon. It is noticable when moving windows, animations, and especially bad when scrolling on firefox or watching videos. I have tried changing drivers, settings, searching everywhere, but I cannot seem to fix this problem, so I finally thought I would post on here. Sorry if I did anything wrong, this is my first post. Can anyone help?
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briandh25

Re: Screen tearing

Post by briandh25 »

Hi, first of all, what version of LM do you have?
Can you post the output of:

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inxi -Gx
MintBean

Re: Screen tearing

Post by MintBean »

See Mint 18.2 release notes on using the modesetting driver by uninstalling the existing driver. If your hardware supports this it should improve tearing and on my system it is a 100% fix when using the CPU onboard graphics (Intel).
Once it is fully released, see Mint 18.3 release notes, which when it is out of beta should have a note on updating to x.org display server 1.19. This hopefully will end screen tearing for a wider set of hardware.

Of course, this all involves upgrading to Mint 18.3 to get the benefit I presume.
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