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nlern

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From: West Bengal, India

Registered: 2015-06-29

Posts: 51

[SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Hello everyone, I installed arch yesterday following Beginner's guide and Lifehacker's post on Building killer customised arch linux. After that installed xorg, xf86-video-intel (following lifehacker's same article). After that I installed LXDE. Everything went fine. But now I'm seeing display tearing problems (wallpapers tearing, lxterminal fonts blurring/tearing, webpage images/video tearing). Can anyone please help me solve this problem?

My PC specs are,

1.Mercury PIG31U motherboard
2.Intel G31 express chipset
3. Intel Pentium dual core E6600 CPU
4.3 GB DDR2 RAM
5.500GB HDD

$ pacman -Qi xf86-video-intel
Name           : xf86-video-intel
Version        : 1:2.99.917+364+gb24e758-1
Description    : X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Licenses       : custom
Groups         : xorg-drivers  xorg
Provides       : xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-intel-sna
Depends On     : mesa-dri  libxvmc  pixman  xcb-util>=0.3.9
Optional Deps  : libxrandr: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                 libxinerama: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                 libxcursor: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
                 libxtst: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : xorg-server<1.16  X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<19
                 X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=20  xf86-video-intel-sna
                 xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-i810  xf86-video-intel-legacy
Replaces       : xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-intel-sna
Installed Size :   2.07 MiB
Packager       : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Thu 18 Jun 2015 05:48:23 PM IST
Install Date   : Mon 29 Jun 2015 01:45:52 PM IST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

This image shows tearing problem: [mod edit] here is a low resolution picture; click through to see the full size image:

EDIT: Using LINUX-LTS KERNEL also seems to solve the Screen tearing/pixalated image (I am not sure about the exact term for this problem) issue. Using this Kernel, one can still use sna as default Accelerating Method.(Source)

moderator [ewaller] Fixed post to provide a click through thumbnail to the full resolution picture

Last edited by nlern (2015-08-19 15:20:18)

cirrus

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From: Glasgow Scotland

Registered: 2012-08-24

Posts: 340

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Hi my intel laptop started showing similar tearing recently, i fixed it by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
and adding this snippet

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

If symptoms persist try this also
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "TearFree"    "true"
EndSection

both snippets are taken from the Archwiki Intel page
Good luck.

(edit) typo

Last edited by cirrus (2015-06-29 10:34:51)

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nlern

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From: West Bengal, India

Registered: 2015-06-29

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Thanks for the quick solution. I did the first suggestion and just rebooted. Everything seems fine now.

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Last edited by Trilby (2015-06-29 15:26:48)

aouelete

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Registered: 2015-05-27

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Please edit your original post title to mark it as solved.

cirrus

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From: Glasgow Scotland

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Hello everyone, I installed arch tommorow following Beginner's guide

can you tell me which horse is going to win tomorrows 4.40 at Kempton ?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Don't forget that this is mostly a temporary workaround. Try removing it after the next driver update.

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Thank you for posting the low resolution images.  The purpose of the low resolution image is to act as a thumbnail that one can click through to the full size image.  That way, members don't have to load the full sized images unless they want to see them.   I edited your posts;  look at my edits to see how it is done. 

thanks.

Last edited by ewaller (2015-06-29 15:26:52)

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nlern

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From: West Bengal, India

Registered: 2015-06-29

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

Thanks cirrus for pointing out, I've corrected the first post.Also thanks ewaller, I will keep that in mind.

cirrus

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From: Glasgow Scotland

Registered: 2012-08-24

Posts: 340

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Re: [SOLVED]Intel display tearing in newly installed arch

@ nlern  your welcome, and welcome to Arch.

Last edited by cirrus (2015-06-30 12:31:46)

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