Video tearing with modesetting driver and Intel Sandybridge graphics

2017-03-14 Thread Tino Mettler
Hi, I get tearing video with the modesetting driver on a Debian Sid installation. It happens at least in VLC and Firefox in Gnome3 using HDMI output of the Sandybridge graphics. I does not happen when using the Intel DDX driver with the TearFree option enabled. According to several sources in t

Re: maybe xorg server?: gnome is not starting without a screen connected?

2017-03-14 Thread Simon Eigeldinger
Hi, I will see what i will find out. though i guess i might connect a screen during install and maybe after that it might remember those settings. greetings, simon Am 12.03.2017 um 19:20 schrieb Eric Gunther: On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 23:20 +0100, Simon Eigeldinger wrote: Hi Eric, This is basi

Re: Video tearing with modesetting driver and Intel Sandybridge graphics

2017-03-14 Thread Tino Mettler
Hi, it looks like my dualhead setup is causing problems. The LCD is reported to use 59.88 Hz in xrandr. The projector is reported to use 60 Hz. Disabling one of the outputs makes the tearing go away. I can set the projector to use 59.94 Hz (NTSC), but this doesn't solve the tearing issue. The LCD

Re: RandR 1.5 "Monitors" and splitting a single physical display

2017-03-14 Thread Jack Coulter
Hi Nathan, > I ran into issues trying to do setup multiple Monitors for an Output, > and sent a mail to the list in September 2016; Aaron Plattner from > NVIDIA responded, noting about the "ConnectionNumber" property from > the xrandr --prop command. The Intel hardware I'm using (Intel > Skylake;

`pkg-config --static --libs x11` unusable for static linking?

2017-03-14 Thread xorg
Hello list, I'm trying to support clean-ish static linking of a small autotools and libx11-using monitoring program via: PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config --static" LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure But linking fails on libdl and libpthread symbols: $ gcc -g -O2 -static -o vwm vwm-clickety.o vwm-composite.o

Re: Video tearing with modesetting driver and Intel Sandybridge graphics

2017-03-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 14/03/17 07:52 PM, Tino Mettler wrote: > Hi, > > I get tearing video with the modesetting driver on a Debian Sid > installation. Which desktop environment are you using? > It happens at least in VLC and Firefox in Gnome3 using HDMI output of > the Sandybridge graphics. In Firefox, you proba

[ANNOUNCE] pthread-stubs 0.4

2017-03-14 Thread Uli Schlachter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, pthread-stubs 0.4 is now available. This new release stops providing stubs, but instead expects libc to do so. On platforms where this is not the case, "-pthread" is injected via our pkg-config file instead. This was done to make loading libpthr