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#1 Post by sickpig »

Hello

I used to get a lot of video tearing in netflix and utube untill i tried be below as per 666philb in http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112309

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "INTEL Corporation"
Option "DRI" "3"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

my system is 64 bit xenial
i5 4g ram

this has reduced the tearing by heaps


but it is still there in videos up to some extent

it is a slight bother

i want my puppy installation to be perfect :)

i then tried another distro(deb based) and videos and browser smooth scrolling worked ootb.

its video graphic output is attached in the file named otherdistro

and puppy's graphic details are in file named pupster below

please help me mirror the other distro's video card settings in puppy
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#2 Post by sickpig »

ooh forgot to attach pupsysinfo files
attached now
it was not letting me attach txt so i added .gz after txt, but it is a txt file
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#3 Post by bigpup »

If this is a laptop computer.
This computer could be setup using the new Nvidia Optimus graphics.

Basically the laptop starts and runs using the integrated Intel graphics built into the lntel processor. Uses this for all normal stuff.
The Nvidia hardware gets used when a big graphics demand happens.
This is suppose to save on power usage for battery life.


Puppy is not really setup to use Optimus, but it usually does work with the Intel part of it.

Wonder if this boot option will help.

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i915.modeset=0
This is an option for Intel driver sometimes needed.

Could look in the computers bios setup for graphics mode options.
Set Optimus enable/disable to disable.

Or if it shows a way to select Intel or Nvidia graphics card.
Select Nvidia.

The other OS you used, did have Nvidia card used for graphics, using the Nouveau driver.
If you can get it to boot using the Nvidia card.
Xenialpup should automatically set it up to use the Nouveau driver.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#4 Post by sickpig »

Thanks bigpup for the reply

please tell me which file i need to modify to include i915.modeset=0 as the boot option

the other distro(q4os) upon booting up asked me if i want to use nvidia drivers, but i declined as i dont play games and browsers afaik dont use gpu drivers

my main use is netflix in a browser. so nvidia wont be of help.

the bios has always been set to use integrated graphics instead of nvidia(my laptop's appendix dont have much use for it :))
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