Video tearing with modesetting driver and Intel Sandybridge graphics

[Michel Dänzer]

On 15/03/17 05:53 PM, Tino Mettler wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:34:48 +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On 14/03/17 07:52 PM, Tino Mettler wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I get tearing video with the modesetting driver on a Debian Sid
>>> installation.
>>
>> Which desktop environment are you using?
> 
> I use Gnome3 (as cited below).
> 
>>
>>
>>> It happens at least in VLC and Firefox in Gnome3 using HDMI output of
>>> the Sandybridge graphics.
>>
>> In Firefox, you probably need to force hardware compositing by setting
>> layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true in about:config . Check what
>> about:support says for *_COMPOSITING.
> 
> I'll try that. Meanwhile, I also tried mpv with "--vo xv", "--vo
> opengl" and "--vo opengl --hwdec vaapi" and always got tearing video.

Same problem with fullscreen and windowed?


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