Comment 5 for bug 1280665

I've the same with xbmc on 14.04 on intel (haswell). The upstream bug report has more background on the issue.

I've verified the patch works and it alone fixes the tearing issue, so I proposed it for merging. The u-series is not open yet during this weekend it seems, but probably next week this'll need to be uploaded there first before fixing in trusty.

Meanwhile, I've built the fixed libsdl1.2 in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~timo-jyrinki/+archive/ppa (feel free to test and give positive/negative feedback).