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Title:
18.04 - Screen tearing with NVIDIA GTX 970
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My laptop has the same card with no tearing. Note however I’m on version 384 and have no desire for a higher version number which might complicate my setup. During system setup I did the usual trick of consulting Arch Linux’s bible that recommends:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia Card"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 1050 Ti"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}"
Option "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
EndSection
Full Composition Pipeline and Triple Buffer are the most important.
Today my setup is like this:
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout"
Screen 0 "nvidia"
Inactive "intel"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DP-1-1"
Modeline "3840x2160_54.00" 637.50 3840 4152 4568 5296 2160 2163 2168 2230 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "3840x2160_54.00"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "modesetting"
BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"
Option "AccelMethod" "None"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "intel"
Device "intel"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0"
Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "nvidia"
Device "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection
Notice Force Composition Pipeline and Triple Buffer aren’t setup here. It used to be on nvidia-settings GUI configuration but I don’t see it there anymore.