Just want to let anyone interested know what I've done so far. First, even if it compromises stability a little, I installed kernel version 4.12.1 from testing. I uninstalled the intel xorg driver as I couldn't get it to work (see above) anyway and tried modesetting. As modesetting wasn't working perhaps because I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, I installed an xorg intel driver via testing (
) after writing the appropriate files in /etc/apt/preferences.d and /etc/apt/sources.list.d. Then I created a basic 20-intel.conf file as a test+
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
I didn't use stevepusser's input because before I wasn't getting X to work at all and wanted to put minimal programming to see if it works at first.
It did work and, finally, the tearing was gone! Success!!
But I'm not one to be so easily satisfied. I'd like to try putting more in this file, some of the code stevepusser suggested and maybe other code too. But I'd like a little knowledge first. For example, just to reproduce stevepusser's code here:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "TearFree" "true"
Option "DRI" "3"
What exactly do these options do? How to determine BusID and how will it help? What will sna and DRI offer? Are there other options I might want to try?
Any suggestions very welcome!
Kendew