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codehaiku

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Registered: 2021-01-30

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Strange Rips in Screen on Arch LTS (LXQT)

I have been running Arch (LTS kernel) with the LXQT desktop environment.  I was in the middle of game play, playing 0AD when I noticed some dancing artifacts throughout the screen.  This happened an hour into game play.  No updates were installed on this day of game play.  Then, I went to Firefox and noticed some artifacts or rips in the screen.  These rips change in size and location as the screen is scrolled.  As a result, I installed Chromium and the rips aren't as bad; they show up as dancing dots throughout the screen as opposed to large chunks. 

I haven't changed any hardware nor resolution.  I am curious to know how I can go about resolving this issue.  I did install picom and it didn't do anything except for give me transparent windows.

Firefox Screenshot

codehaiku

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Re: Strange Rips in Screen on Arch LTS (LXQT)

I should have mentioned that this is on a machine that has Intel graphics.

codehaiku

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Re: Strange Rips in Screen on Arch LTS (LXQT)

After reading numerous forum posts, articles, and wiki entries, I was unable to resolve the issue.  I switched to Fedora running KDE.  Firefox runs without any issues.  However, 0AD still shows really bad dancing artifacts.  I think at this point it may be safe to assume that the integrated graphics card on this machine may have gone bad.  I have had Fedora on this machine in the past and played the same game without issue.

Last edited by codehaiku (2021-08-20 05:40:34)

seth

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Re: Strange Rips in Screen on Arch LTS (LXQT)

Looks like artifacts from the drivers tile based renderer.

I should have mentioned that this is on a machine that has Intel graphics.

The reason was/is possibly xf86-video-intel, might be https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ … RI3_issues (not sure whether that doesn't boil down to page flipping, there's an X11 option PageFlip for at least the modesetting driver)

If you're using archlinux, post your xorg log and glxinfo output for a broad oversight on the setup.

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