While the patch provided
(http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/) does prevent the
tearing problem, it also causes a new problem.
About 10% of the time that I open a movie in mplayer, the screen will
entirely switch to one (random) color and flash between that color and
black on an irregul
I forgot to mention that the same thing happens without the patch, if
mplayer is used with the Video Overlay port, i.e.
mplayer -vo xv:port=84 foo.avi
where port 84 is the "Adaptor #1: "Intel(R) Video Overlay"" port.
Also, this happens regardless of whether or not compiz is activated.
Here is so
