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[ron.alan]

Hi there, new to forums. I've posted twice (same issue) but my posts keep disappearing. Is there something wrong?

 

[Brickwizard]

I've posted twice (same issue) but my posts keep disappearing

Welcome, I am not a Janitor for this site, but I can tel you that we do have automatic filtering of new post, if you make a first post that includes links to outside sites, it will be automatically held until one of the Mods have time to check it.

So without using off site links, what is your problem?

 

[ron.alan]

My problem is that I am getting horrible screen tearing mostly in my browser. I just installed Crowz (Devuan) 5 with the Mate desktop. I used to have instructions on how to fix it, and it always worked, but I'm thinking they are outdated. First, here are the instructions:

If experiencing screen tearing (mostly in browser) do this:

First make sure that "Enable software compositing . . ." in Control Center >> Windows, General tab, is not checked. Then, in /home/**/.config open compton.conf and change:

backend = "xrender";
#backend = "glx";

-to-

#backend = "xrender";
backend = "glx";

Then in Startup Applications, click Add, and fill in this:

Name:        Compton
Command:    compton -b
Comment:    Compositor

To fixe fade in (to have no fade in) find the line: fading = true -change to- fading = false

The reason I think the instructions are out of date is that in my new install, I have no lines in the compton.config file that has the lines I was told to change. Can you help me?

 

[Brickwizard]

Not my area of expertise, however Tearing seems to be mostly associated with xorg and AMD radon graphics
so my first question is can you install inxi [from the software manager] and run from a terminal inxi -G and copy/paste back the results [it may not help me, but it might have other members]

 

[ron.alan]

Here it is:

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD
    Graphics (HSW GT1)

 

[Brickwizard]

There was a bug in Linux kernel-5.11 but this has since been fixed so unless you're on 5,11 it should not be a problem.

But there was also a problem early this year with Debian [on which Devuan is based] see..

[Testing - Bookworm][SOLVED] Screen Tearing Mate Desktop - Intel 11th gen - Debian User Forums

 

[ron.alan]

From your link:

I do have firmware-misc-nonfree installed, so that's not it.
Also, I tried the "20-intel.conf" fix, but that caused my computer not to boot. Actually, I guess it did boot, but not to Mate; it booted to something like a terminal prompt. I had to live boot and erase the contents of the file to get it back to booting normally.

Thanks, though. Any other ideas?

 

[Brickwizard]

Any other ideas?

not off the top of my head, hang tight other members may pop in later [we are all in different time zones]

 

[ron.alan]

Thanks for your help so far. I wonder about the lines I was told to change, from "xrender" to "glx." I wish I knew what that meant. For the record, I did do the last half of those instructions, putting compton in the startup applications. Also here is a more full inxi report:

System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: MATE v: 1.26.0 Distro: Crowz GNU/Linux 5.0.0 daedalus
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H81M-C v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 3602 date: 03/26/2018
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium G3220 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell
    rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 960 high: 1100 min/max: 800/3000 cores: 1: 1100 2: 820
    bogomips: 11972
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 22.3.6 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (HSW GT1)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 8
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-16-amd64 status: kernel-api
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK H81M-C driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 387.53 GiB used: 101.8 GiB (26.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT256MX100SSD1 size: 238.47 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3160815AS size: 149.05 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.66 GiB used: 4.66 GiB (2.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 142 Uptime: 1h 6m Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.63 GiB
  used: 1.76 GiB (23.1%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0
  Packages: 1337 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.31

 

[dos2unix]

What is your monitor frequency and resolution? What kind of cable are you using?
Have you changed your monitor or cable lately?

 

[ron.alan]

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Refresh rate: 60 Hz

Not sure what you mean by frequency. The cable is the old style, sorry can't remember what it's called. Nothing has changed except for upgrading from Devuan 4 to 5. FTR, this is not unusual on my system. It's just that something has changed (see above) and now I don't know how to fix the problem.

 

[Hillbilly H]

Not sure what you mean by frequency

60 Hz

i think its the 60Hz

 

[ron.alan]

I see a package in Synaptic called "xserver-xorg-video-intel." It says it is an Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver, and it's not installed. I wonder if this would help or not?

 

[ron.alan]

Well, after trying something that should have been obvious, it seems to have resolved itself. I had a copy of the old compton.config file, with the changed lines, so I put it where the instructions said it was supposed to be, and "made-believed" the other compton.config file in a different place didn't exist. It seems to have solved the problem.

Thanks to everyone who posted here.