Clear diagonal \ shaped screen tearing

Nycticorax

I am running an Intel® HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) embedded GPU. What is my best bet to fix the issue mentioned above? Install new driver packages? Reconfig packages I may already have? Refine my diagnostic using tool XYZ?
Thanks in advance for your kind help!

Khio

For screen tearing with the intel driver you can try that :

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Copy that in the file :

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

Save and reboot

Christoph3

Hi there, with intel hd5500 i'm using this:

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "Intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "Tiling" "true"
Option "Pageflip" "false"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"
EndSection

Nycticorax

Thanks very much for these two pieces of advice; do they presuppose having anything more installed than what you would expect from a clean Software Center (i.e. all packages up-to-date; no new suggested package)?

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Any settings to share to reduce tearing on AMD? Especially fullscreen videos

Khio

I would said it should work relatively the same, first you would have to identity what amd driver you are using, type lsmod in a terminal and check if you find a "radeon" or a "amdgpu" ( i think the free driver is amdgpu now ) and then create the corresponding file :

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "AMD"
  Driver      "amdgpu"
  Option      "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

As Christop3 said you can also add the option - Option "TripleBuffer" "true" - that can help and make the vsync smoother

Nycticorax

I solved my problem. It was not linked to Intel's driver config, but rather to Firefox' not using hardware acceleration fully. For anyone in the same predicament, try setting Firefox' "layers.acceleration.force-enabled" option to TRUE (Firefox options can be reached from the URL bar, at 'about:config').
Thanks anyway to all those who helped!
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