On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 09:58:31PM +0000, Igor Petruk wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed the "TearFree" patch was merged upstream in the XOrg > modesetting driver. Long time ago when it was sent I patched it into > my local Xenocara and used it ever since. Zero issues, zero tearing. > > Maybe let's consider adding it to Xenocara too? I am attaching the > patch, commit message is from my local git repo, I am of course NOT an > author. It adds the "TearFree" option to the modesetting section of > your xorg.conf. > > Feel free to fetch it directly from the Merge Request, the real author > is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kerneltoast: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1006 > > I am just sending this as is, but I don't know enough about XOrg to > follow up with extra fixes to the code. I can only confirm that it > worked flawlessly on my Intel NUC 11 for a really long time. > > Thanks, > Igor.
Hi, This will be merged in OpenBSD sometime after the next major X server version (based on the current main branch of the gitlab repository) will be released. We try to avoid merging parts of the main branch because it then makes merging full releases more complex. -- Matthieu Herrb
