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Video tearing using unity but minimal or none using gnome session (same thing applies to linux mint)

Asked by tedi belušić

Weal, problem is by default well known, there are a mirriad of possible solutions and I have tried most of the simple ones.

But the most simplest is to use gnome classic session with, of course, latest nvidia drivers and enabled vsinc for the device...
Its not perfect, there is still tearing, but its minimal and quite acceptable.
Problem is that I quite like the unity look and feel and would like to use it, but tearing gets quite heavy killing the experience.

By the way same thing applies exactly to linux mint12.

Is there a way to get the tearing down in unity?

My configuration is: Ubuntu11.10 on Intel core 2 quad q6600, 4gb ddr2, nvidia 240.
I have a monitor over dvi and tv over hdmi.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; echo; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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tedi belušić (t-beluschi) said : 		#2

Thanks for taking interest:) this is what terminal listed out:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GT215 [GeForce GT 240]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:ce000000-cfffffff ioport:ef00(size=128) memory:c0000000-c007ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux moguja-nForce-750i-SLI 3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:23:00 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.35 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 280.13-0ubuntu6 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 280.13-0ubuntu2 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
moguja@moguja-nForce-750i-SLI:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Could try the xorg edgers update PPA (less fresh), may help if you have the 290 driver.

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