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wammes

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Registered: 2018-06-21

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[SOLVED] 020-intel.conf to fix screen tearing for intel graphics

I always put the following file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

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

This used to solve my tearing problems on my intel internal graphics card.
However, on the latest Arch, X crashes with this file in place.
Has someting changed that I don't know of?

Last edited by wammes (2018-12-16 09:23:16)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] 020-intel.conf to fix screen tearing for intel graphics

Please clarify "X crashes", in what way does this show, how are you starting it? Xorg logs, journal logs? xf86-video-intel installed? Also please use [ code ] tags for pasting command output

Mod note: Moving to NC

wammes

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Registered: 2018-06-21

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Re: [SOLVED] 020-intel.conf to fix screen tearing for intel graphics

I feel stupid. I forgot to install xf86-video-intel. Problem solved

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] 020-intel.conf to fix screen tearing for intel graphics

Well FWIW, there might be use cases/scenarios where the built in modesetting driver is preferred over xf86-video-intel but if that's the setup you are used to and known to work for you then that's fine as well. Please mark the topic as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your initial post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] 020-intel.conf to fix screen tearing for intel graphics

While your at it edit the rest of the title to make it mean something.  I can only assume there are multiple typos in what was already a far to vague idea of `20-intel.conf`.

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