I'm now on Kubuntu 12.10 and I enabled in xorg.conf both the tearfree option and the sna acceleration. It's definitely better: the xv output seems fine so far in mplayer, the gl output is however unusable as the video keep halting during the play (truthfully I don't really care about it as long as the xv output works). Watching youtube gives me less headache but it still isn't perfect: on some videos there's sometimes still tearing. One thing that I also noticed: after watching a youtube video in fullscreen the display gets somehow corrupted at the bottom of the kde screen (the sidebar containing the desktop shortcuts, the clock, the minimized windows). When I pass the mouse pointer on it everything gets fine again (as it is refreshed) but not for long...
Should I expect some improvements in a more recent driver that the one provided in Kubuntu 12.10? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755841 Title: [sandybridge] Graphics tearing when playing video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-core/+bug/755841/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
