Nvidia Optimus tear free test
PPA description
The purpose here is to test whether adding a tearfree line to xorg.conf is effective in reducing tearing on nvidia optimus gpu's when using the nvidia drivers.
This is done thru adding a TearFree option to xorg.conf for the Intel device when xorg.conf is generated or regenerated by gpu-manager
** Here it has no effect on a standard 14.04.1 install with non lts HWE mesa stack. Tear Free is enabled, then immediately disabled, seen clearly in /var/log/
** Also note that this does introduce some minor tearing while moving cursor inside a video window, for me small price to be paid **
Tested here with a nvidia GeForce GT 755M in an ubuntu session & this ppa's nvidia drivers, both 340, 355 & 358. 355/358 seemed best
*Trusty users should probably use drivers from below ppa*, for vivid, wily doesn't hurt either, 355 or higher beats the 352 drivers
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To try, *assumes already using nvidia-prime* -
Upgrade to the ppa's ubuntu-
If currently on Nvidia -
open nvidia settings, switch to Intel, log out/in
open nvidia settings, switch to nvidia, log out/in
See how it goes
If currently on Intel -
open nvidia settings, switch to nvidia, log out/in
See how it goes
To ck. - open /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you should see this line in intel device section, Option "TearFree" "True"
example here of complete section
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"
Option "AccelMethod" "SNA"
Option "TearFree" "True"
EndSection
To add this ppa -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/
sudo apt-get update
To remove this ppa & revert back -
Install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:mc3man/
Note: PRIME Synchronization will be working in 16.04.3, instructions here
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Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:mc3man/tearfree-test to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/tearfree-test
sudo apt-get update
For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Doug McMahon.
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