Comment 33 for bug 755841
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| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote Re: [sandybridge] video tearing | #33 |
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I'm still working on improving the general tearing problem (for all graphics hardware) running compiz/unity in bug 880707. I am not fixing gnome-shell right now.
Tearing is almost always a bug in the application (compiz/unity or gnome-shell), and almost never a bug in the driver. If there is a driver issue then it's usually that the manufacturer has decided to turn off vsync support by default (which I think ATI did with fglrx and "Tear-free desktop"). However, Intel have the feature turned on by default and AFAIK you can't turn it off. So tearing with intel graphics will generally be resolved by fixing the application, and not the driver or X.