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exad

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Registered: 2016-11-15

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[SOLVED] Screen Tearing Intel HD i5 430M

Hello, I have installed Arch on an old laptop which uses Intel HD graphics i5 430M.

I am getting some screen tearing which I cannot seem to resolve.

lspci -v shows:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0487
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
    Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
    Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    I/O ports at 3050 [size=8]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
    Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

I have tried creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with:

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

or   

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

but any time I create 20-intel.conf, my laptop just hangs on boot until I remove it.

Does anyone have any insight as to how I can fix the screen tearing and/or why I can't boot properly when I create 20-intel.conf?

If there's any information I can provide that I may have missed, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

Last edited by exad (2017-07-29 21:24:26)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Screen Tearing Intel HD i5 430M

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

And paste your Xorg log.

Moving to NC...

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exad

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Registered: 2016-11-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Screen Tearing Intel HD i5 430M

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

And paste your Xorg log.

Moving to NC...

Thanks, I am just an idiot and I fixed it. forgot to install xf86-video-intel package. My bad. Thanks for the reply.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Screen Tearing Intel HD i5 430M

You can run without it, but you'd have to remove the conf files: as the wiki notes.

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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exad

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Registered: 2016-11-15

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] Screen Tearing Intel HD i5 430M

Yeah I realized that after. Running without was causing the screen tearing though. Installing the driver software, improved the tearing dramatically.

Thanks again.

Last edited by exad (2017-07-30 02:28:30)