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On Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 06:26 Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > Debian 12 Bookworm, plus Firefox, Chrome, or Brave browsers, > works great on my desktop computers. > > Sadly, web animations often exhibit screen tearing (strips > of animation pixels scattered vertically/randomly on > the screen) on my ancient T60 Thinkpads with Bookworm. > > There is no screen tearing with Debian 11 Bullseye. > Nor with Debian 13 Trixie (which won't be stable for > a while, and is missing some apps, or I'd upgrade now). > > I'm keeping the Thinkpads; they have better ergonomics > than any current laptop, but sadly have only 3 GB of RAM. > My preferred-for-text-writing-and-coding 4W:3H screens; > some have homebrew 2048W*1536H pixel screens. > > Perhaps Bookworm wants more RAM for animation buffering. > Probably just a coding error. > > BTW, I'm keeping Debian - it is so much cleaner and faster > than the old Redhat and newer Ubuntu crap I've endured for > years. So lets not surrender to a different problem, OK? > > ----- > > So, the ask: > > What should I read or learn about so I can debug the screen > tearing that Bookworm inflicts on my beloved Thinkpads? > > Keith L. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] >
