distro for GTX770 which has NO tearing?
 

Hi,

I have tested a few distros and DE's but they have all had problems with my nvidia gtx770 causing tearing on my TV output so i was just wonder if anyone had a suggestion which distro/DE/mangers i could use that will not have this problem at all?

Cheers.

it not depends on distro it depends on drivers and configuration.

maybe beta driver will do :
http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...x/100577/en-us

btw. widows i bet is one of them ;-).

i have no problems with windows causing tearing its smooth as butter on windoz, you say its about setup and drivers but iv been trying for a year (on and off) to get my mint17.3 KDE to stop tearing my TV output. There are years of forum threads and 100's of suggestions so i just cant see the wood for the trees.

I shall take a look at your beta driver , thx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

unfortunately i have secondary nvidia gpu on my laptop to, is working just fine for my needs.

maybe you have prime ?

hmm sounds over my head atm

iv looked for the /etc/inittab but i dont have one, im afraid i may mess this up.

distro for GTX770 which has NO tearing?
 

Is your TV output a secondary display, so that you have a dual monitor setup?

yep, it is. main monitor is on the DVI, TV is on HDMI.

I had to disable the onboard vid in the bios because it was causing a really angry bios beep when i shutdown any linux distro.

iv found a description of the process but it does not say anything about making the system boot into a different runlevel so im not sure.

Im looking at the right hand side of here:-
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/12

ok i added the ppa and did it that way , i have 364.2 installed and i purged all the previous nvidia files beforehand.

However the TV still tears.

Am i supposed to go through all these suggestions again ? (as i purged all my tinkering), none of them worked before.

Ok, this is a known issue with the NVidia driver, VSYNC does not work correctly in multimonitor settings with the X server (Wayland shouldn't have that problem). The NVidia settings dialog does provide an option to define to which output video should be synchronized, sadly this does not always work for me (maybe caused by my setup including a CRT an an LCD monitor).

no that setting (Sync to HDMI (my TV)) does nothing for me either but my TV is lcd the same for my monitor.

I cant (really dont want to) go back to windows.
I cant try removing the nvidia and using the on-board , well i could but it cost me £££.
I cant keep swapping the vid leads between the nvidia and the onboard just so i can play games on windows

It was posts like this that make me want to just dump kde and look at others (although cinnamon was tearing to when i tested it)

my main comp cost me over 1k and i get a better TV output from a cheep tablet :( (when using linux).