Bug 93446

Summary: [HD Graphics 3000] [SNA] TearFree option ineffective after screensaver, screen power-off
Product: xorg Reporter: Phillip Andrews <phillipedison1891>
Component: Driver/intelAssignee: Chris Wilson <chris>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list <intel-gfx-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Contains Dmesg contents (with drm.debug=0x06) and Xorg log none

Description Phillip Andrews 2015-12-19 06:08:12 UTC
Created attachment 120590 [details]
Contains Dmesg contents (with drm.debug=0x06) and Xorg log

My Samsung laptop screen experiences tearing when using SNA acceleration in Ubuntu 15.10.  Setting "TearFree" to "true" in the X configuration fixes this... but when certain things happen, the tearing comes back, and the only way to stop it is to log out and log back in, which restarts the X server.  The aforementioned certain things are:

* mate-screensaver is activated
* Screen powers off after a period of time, per Ubuntu power settings

Activating the MATE screensave alone doesn't break it, and neither does just letting the screen power off.  *Both* have to happen to break the TearFree.

I have attached a tarball containing both the dmesg contents (with drm debug lever 0x06) and the X log.

Best wishes,
Phillip
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2015-12-19 09:25:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 92873 ***

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