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Zavation

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Registered: 2014-02-23

Posts: 15

[Solved] ATI HD Graphics Screen Tearing

Hi All,

I would first like to say I'm pretty new to Arch, as I've just come from the Ubuntu side.

I currently have a ATI HD 6950 Graphics card. Last night I installed my system fine, however the only thing that let me down was the huge amount of screen tearing. (I made sure I updated my system to download the Free Driver)
anyway, after rebooting it still had the same issue, so I thought I would download the proprietary drivers from AMD. Howerver this made no differnce.

I was just curious if anyone had any suggestions on what I could do? Thing is, when I was running Ubuntu I never had any of these issues, so surely its a driver issue?

Also, I have a 3 screen setup, so some say that having the proprietary drivers may help?

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks!

Last edited by Zavation (2014-02-23 20:31:10)

joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

Re: [Solved] ATI HD Graphics Screen Tearing

Just to say that I have an HD7770, and I also have a lot of tearing. It's not horrible, but when playing a video (with totem, vlc, smplayer), or youtube, it is there.

Both with open source drivers or catalyst.

So a solution would be awesome

agapito

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From: Who cares.

Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 702

Re: [Solved] ATI HD Graphics Screen Tearing

I don't experiment any tearing issue under KDE. This is my config:

Radeonsi driver @ HD7950. I am not using a custom xorg.conf file.

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Excuse my poor English.

Zavation

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Registered: 2014-02-23

Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] ATI HD Graphics Screen Tearing

Hi Both, thanks for your answers,

I think I may have found a solution. I meant to say that In my post that I thought it was a V-Sync issue where as all my tearing was well, vertical... Heres what I found out:

If you go to the "Window Manager and tweaks" section, in settings: Go to Compositor > and check "Synchronize drawing to the vertical blank".

I think this has fixed the issue for me...

I don't get any screen tearing now... and joanmanel, take a look at this blog post I found, it might help you:

http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/h … g-in-xfce/

This fixed the same issue on my laptop with the intel Drivers.

joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

Re: [Solved] ATI HD Graphics Screen Tearing

I am in gnome 3, also open source driver. I cannot see any of those options