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Hello,
I hope I'm posting this topic in the right forum, but I'm facing some awful screen tearing with my HP Laptop (Horizontal lines while watching videos for example).
It's running with Nvidia Bumblebee, and I get this screen tearing with almost all distros (I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, Antergos...) and on all DE I tried too (KDE, Budgie, Gnome...).
I tried so many solutions, as adding the "TearFree : true" line to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf file, disabling the compositor...
Many tutorials show a solution with nvidia-settings, but as the driver is bumblebee it doesn't work (I cannot launch this software).
Also, I wanted to install the video-nvidia driver (so that I can use nvidia-settings), but whenever I install it, my laptop stops booting (black screen after the grub selection).
If you need any other information about my laptop don't hesitate to ask me, and I hope you'll be able to solve this problem I'm trying to solve for several months.
Have a nice day!
Ludo
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I don't know if it's possible to fix tearing for Bumblebee. I only know it's possible when using a "PRIME" setup where the whole screen is running on your NVIDIA card.
About what to do to fix tearing for a PRIME setup, look up section 3.2 "Tearing/Broken VSync" in the "NVIDIA Optimus" ArchWiki article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
It links to the section "DRM kernel mode setting" in the "NVIDIA" ArchWiki article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting
About how to most easily deal with configuring that PRIME setup with the whole desktop running on NVIDIA, check out this tool here, "optimus-manager":
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I don't know if it's possible to fix tearing for Bumblebee. I only know it's possible when using a "PRIME" setup where the whole screen is running on your NVIDIA card.
About what to do to fix tearing for a PRIME setup, look up section 3.2 "Tearing/Broken VSync" in the "NVIDIA Optimus" ArchWiki article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
It links to the section "DRM kernel mode setting" in the "NVIDIA" ArchWiki article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting
About how to most easily deal with configuring that PRIME setup with the whole desktop running on NVIDIA, check out this tool here, "optimus-manager":
I will try that and let you about it, thanks!
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Hello,
It seems like I finally solved my problem, but apparently there was no link between the screen tearing and bumblebee.
I solved the problem switching to another browser (from Firefox to Chrome), and enabling the hardware acceleration. I tried to enable it on FF too, but there was still some screen tearing on this browser (even though it was reduced significantly). Don't have screen tearing anymore on Chrome, so it looks like FF was part of the problem.
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