odoe
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So I recently picked up a snazzy new 27" 1440P monitor to go with my T430s Manjaro machine. This is my main machine and everything ran great.
Then I did a recent kernel upgrade (only thing I can think would impact this) and began to notice some nasty tearing in my display. I could see it moving window, scrolling browser pages, even watching some videos. It had to be a recent software update (why I think kernel) as I would have noticed this before.
So disconnect monitor, reboot a few times, still happens on laptop monitor. So after some digging, I found this page.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics#Tips_and_tricks
I tried the 20-intel.conf with "TearFree" "true" setting first. Worked great, until I tried watching video in Chrome, then whole machine came to a crawl. had to force reboot and kept getting error that "System has no xclients file". Well shit, after some digging and deleting that conf file, I was able to get back in using mdm Window manager after exit from terminal and selecting XSessions as my default from the mdm.
So, to get to my tip and provide any other users out there some insight, so far the most stable conf that removed the tearing and where videos don't crash my system is the "AccelMethod" "uxa" one.
So yeah, if you are using Manjaro and have video issues, try that above link, if you get stuck in that xclients error, try various conf files (or delete it entirely) and exit, relog back in selecting XSessions and set it as default.
When shit goes wrong in Linux, shit goes "fuck you" wrong.
ps - I had to use my phone to search for solutions and the Manjaro forums require you login to view threads. What a pain to do on a phone, fuck those guys.
Then I did a recent kernel upgrade (only thing I can think would impact this) and began to notice some nasty tearing in my display. I could see it moving window, scrolling browser pages, even watching some videos. It had to be a recent software update (why I think kernel) as I would have noticed this before.
So disconnect monitor, reboot a few times, still happens on laptop monitor. So after some digging, I found this page.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics#Tips_and_tricks
I tried the 20-intel.conf with "TearFree" "true" setting first. Worked great, until I tried watching video in Chrome, then whole machine came to a crawl. had to force reboot and kept getting error that "System has no xclients file". Well shit, after some digging and deleting that conf file, I was able to get back in using mdm Window manager after exit from terminal and selecting XSessions as my default from the mdm.
So, to get to my tip and provide any other users out there some insight, so far the most stable conf that removed the tearing and where videos don't crash my system is the "AccelMethod" "uxa" one.
So yeah, if you are using Manjaro and have video issues, try that above link, if you get stuck in that xclients error, try various conf files (or delete it entirely) and exit, relog back in selecting XSessions and set it as default.
When shit goes wrong in Linux, shit goes "fuck you" wrong.
ps - I had to use my phone to search for solutions and the Manjaro forums require you login to view threads. What a pain to do on a phone, fuck those guys.