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All my tearing issues on nvidia are fixed when enabling "force full screen
redraws on repaint" in workarounds section of compizconfig. No need to
disable composite. Ubuntu should have some smart hardware detection and
apply the right tweaks automagically.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Geert Jan Alsem <gj_alsem@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Same for me. It just seems that X.org in combination with any kind of
> hardware acceleration and/or compositing will result in vsync problems,
> at least on NVIDIA hardware.
>
> I've been testing 11.10 with Unity, GNOME Shell and Xfce (with
> compositing effects enabled), with different NVIDIA/X.org settings, but
> I can never get rid of tearing. GNOME Shell does a pretty good job
> actually, vsync is almost perfect, but there is still a little tearing
> visible, for example when watching the test video in comment #38.
>
> Here's hoping that Wayland will be the vsync miracle people are saying
> it will be...
>
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> Title:
>  Screen tearing when dragging window, in videos and other large screen
>  redraws (on nVidia GPU)
>
> Status in Compiz:
>  New
> Status in Accelerated Xorg driver for nVidia cards:
>  Confirmed
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
>  New
> Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
>  New
> Status in “kde-workspace” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  I have installed Ubuntu and the latest proprietary graphics drivers on
>  my laptop and when I drag a window around the screen or watch a video
>  with lots of movement I see screen tearing.
>
>  The same problem persists even if I enable "Sync to VBlank" in the
>  NVIDIA X Server settings, and with nouveau video driver,
>
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Title:
  Screen tearing when dragging window, in videos and other large screen
  redraws (on nVidia GPU)

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