I realize that the last comment was almost a year ago, but apparently
this bug is still around. I have it with my Gateway LT31xx laptop, with
the same graphics card as the bug title. I was able to find a solution
to this problem. It requires a BIOS flash with a modified bios file that
enables certain options (North Bridge, IIRC).

The solution was based on this post -->
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post11682072 .

I went to the thread they referenced
(http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer...ml#post6368072), and found the
modified bios file for my laptop, a Gateway LT31xx. The modified bios
file gives you an option to select only 'UMA' rather than
'UMA+Sideport'. I flashed this new bios file, after using the correct
phlash.exe command (found in the first post of the notebookreview
thread), and when I rebooted, there was the option. I changed that and
everything looks great --- no tearing at all. I don't know if I have 3D
compositing, but I do have xcompmgr running, so I think compositing
works fine.

I think this is the solution that everyone is looking for in regard to
the screen tearing problem. If you have a different laptop, I would
suggest searching the notebookreview thread to see if a modified bios
file was created for your specific model.

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