[SOLVED] Eliminating video tearing with nouveau (default video driver).

TheNutCase · 08-27-2016, 06:52 PM

I am using Slackware 14.2 as my operating system, and I am wondering how I can eliminate video tearing within nouveau. I am currently usung the nvidea proprietary drivers, but the thing is that the drivers from the nvidia website won't let me compile certain software packages, and the nvidia drivers as supplied my Slackbuilds.org won't let me view DVDs with xine. I was given the help I needed to eliminate tearing with the nvidia drivers. but that doesn't seem to apply with the nouveau drivers

. Any practical help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

ReaperX7 · 08-27-2016, 07:55 PM

Try using SBo package driconf and have it manage the driver. Usually nouveau loaded either through the xf86-video-nouveau package or xorg-server's modesetting driver with glamor enabled (see the manpages for each driver on how to set this up) benefits from driconf.

As for xine, try a driver like xv or opengl if the xine package has such drivers. Xv usually works with any driver. Nvidia should support any opengl based rendering agent.

TheNutCase · 08-30-2016, 11:37 PM

And where on my hard drive would I find that file?

STDOUBT · 08-30-2016, 11:43 PM

"SBo package" refers to slackbuilds.org
driconf is not on your hard drive. Yet.
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...search=driconf

TheNutCase · 08-31-2016, 07:50 AM

Thanks.

TheNutCase · 01-18-2017, 08:12 PM

Sorry, it doesn't eliminate video tearing, So what should I try next?

FTIO · 01-19-2017, 01:38 PM

I've used this for my system no matter what nvidia card I'm using. Every time I boot or reboot for whatever reason, I simply run in my case the dvi script to stop tearing. I also use the proprietary nvidia blob as it's just easier, for me at least. You could maybe look into this to see if it can be confangled for use with nouveau. The first one is for vga, the second for dvi...

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#  This stops tearing in DVI or VGA
#

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="VGA-0: 1600x900+0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline = On }"

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#  This stops tearing in DVI or VGA
#

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DVI-I-1: 1600x900+0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline = On }"

orbea · 01-21-2017, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheNutCase

Sorry, it doesn't eliminate video tearing, So what should I try next?

I assume this is with the nouveau xorg driver? Is it any better with modesetting? You can also try updating mesa and your kernel to the git master and latest stable respectively. Does it fix your issue? If not try asking in #nouveau @ freenode, they might have some good ideas given they developed the hardware.

TheNutCase · 01-21-2017, 09:35 AM

Sorry, I forgot to re-mark the thread as solved - I tried it a couple of days ago and it seemed to work fine.

orbea · 01-21-2017, 10:53 AM

So what was the solution?

TheNutCase · 01-21-2017, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FTIO

I've used this for my system no matter what nvidia card I'm using. Every time I boot or reboot for whatever reason, I simply run in my case the dvi script to stop tearing. I also use the proprietary nvidia blob as it's just easier, for me at least. You could maybe look into this to see if it can be confangled for use with nouveau. The first one is for vga, the second for dvi...

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#  This stops tearing in DVI or VGA
#

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="VGA-0: 1600x900+0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline = On }"

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#  This stops tearing in DVI or VGA
#

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DVI-I-1: 1600x900+0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline = On }"

This is the solution.