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Norma Jenkins

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Registered: 2023-09-19

Posts: 19

[SOLVED] Screen tearing on intel integrated graphics

Hello, I'm experiencing some screen tearing issues in video playback and basic web scrolling on my integrated i3-11th gen CPU
My WM is DWM stock, no patch added if not some shortcuts.

lspci -v output

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP GT2 [UHD Graphics G4] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 1464
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 135
	Memory at 6000000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915, xe

I got mesa package installed, version 'mesa 1:24.0.6-2' (24.0.6-2?) am I correctly using the drivers? i915 means mesa?

I'm still getting used to arch, but I need to find GUIs for basic actions like changing screen refresh rate, mouse left click and right click, anything that you would find in Settings on other distros like Fedora. Can anyone help on that one? I have got pavucontrol for audio and iwgtk for the wifi, managing iwd was easier than wpa_supplicant.

Last edited by Norma Jenkins (2024-05-04 15:10:23)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] Screen tearing on intel integrated graphics

If xf86-video-intel is installed remove it and reboot/restart xorg.

i915 means the kernel driver, mesa is in userspace and to know your mesa driver you'd check something like

glxinfo -B

-- but it should  be iris.

Generally speaking screen tearing is going to be somewhat normal on simple setups with DWM, if you want to avoid that you'd opt for a compositor, a popular standalone choice here is picom -- make sure to enable vsync there and switch to it's GLX backend.

You'll find all those other settings in the bigger DEs as on Fedora, if you opt for DWM you opt for the minimalism it brings. Standalone tooling for that does exist, but it's not going to be as integrated. Look into https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xrandr … front-ends and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput#Configuration

Norma Jenkins

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Registered: 2023-09-19

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Screen tearing on intel integrated graphics

If xf86-video-intel is installed remove it and reboot/restart xorg.

i915 means the kernel driver, mesa is in userspace and to know your mesa driver you'd check something like

glxinfo -B

-- but it should  be iris.

Generally speaking screen tearing is going to be somewhat normal on simple setups with DWM, if you want to avoid that you'd opt for a compositor, a popular standalone choice here is picom -- make sure to enable vsync there and switch to it's GLX backend.

You'll find all those other settings in the bigger DEs as on Fedora, if you opt for DWM you opt for the minimalism it brings. Standalone tooling for that does exist, but it's not going to be as integrated. Look into https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xrandr … front-ends and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput#Configuration

pacman -Q xf86-video-intel

returns not found message so that is not installed.

glxinfo -B

output returns Version is 24.0.6

I'll try to install picom and thanks for the options you left below, I'm going to close and mark it as solved for now, thanks.

EDIT: title is too long not letting me put full [SOLVED], I will remove last part about newbie questions

Last edited by Norma Jenkins (2024-05-04 15:09:59)