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flounders

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2015-03-01

Posts: 16

[Solved] Video Tearing with Intel 4600 HD Graphics and XMonad

I've read about the tearing on the wiki and enabled TearFree to no effect. Did some searching on DuckDuckGo to find nothing helpful. Right now my display tears badly on fast moving output and otherwise isn't really noticable. Any suggestions?

Last edited by flounders (2015-08-20 02:45:52)

mrlamud

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Registered: 2014-09-27

Posts: 105

Re: [Solved] Video Tearing with Intel 4600 HD Graphics and XMonad

Downgrade to xf86-video-intel-2.99.917-5.
Hope this answer to your question without proper details.

flounders

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2015-03-01

Posts: 16

Re: [Solved] Video Tearing with Intel 4600 HD Graphics and XMonad

I managed to find the package and download the PKGBUILD file. When I run makepkg -sri in trunk, I keep running into this error:

sna_driver.c: In function 'sna_handle_uevents':
sna_driver.c:799:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'fstat' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  if (fstat(sna->kgem.fd, &s) || memcmp(&s.st_rdev, &udev_devnum, sizeof (dev_t))) {

I also tried building the older -4 version and it does the same thing. For some strange reason sys/stat.h isn't in the includes in the file and when I have modified it, it just reverts back to its normal state on the build. This is my first time doing a downgrade so I may be missing something.

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [Solved] Video Tearing with Intel 4600 HD Graphics and XMonad

I have an HD4600 and I use compton in my .xinitrc to eliminate tearing:

compton --backend glx --vsync opengl &

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=compton

Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages

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flounders

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2015-03-01

Posts: 16

Re: [Solved] Video Tearing with Intel 4600 HD Graphics and XMonad

I just setup xmobar on here and after using it the tearing seems to have gone down quite a bit. I'm giving compton a go now, but it seems like it is still tearing a little.