Screen tearing in menus still not solved? (RPI4)

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    Hi there.

    I'd like to know if the screen tearing in the menus have been solved. I have booted my rpi4 up with the latest official librelec and to my horror I can see that it still tears in the menus. Am I doing something wrong? I thought this would surely be a priority and fixed by now (No, I cannot contribute as I am not a programmer). I have tried to search for an answer but I seem to only find the good old threads from 18 months ago or so.

    Is there a fix to this? Has development stopped? Should I get another board instead?

    Perhaps a more detailed description / link to screenshot or video should be shared. I can't imagine what do you mean as on my RPi 4B (even with 1 GB RAM) with latest official LE 9.2.6 I have never seen anything like "tears in the menus".

    Maybe you have a very cheap / bad / incompatible SD card?

    • Official Post
    Quote from skodkassen

    I thought this would surely be a priority and fixed by now

    The problem is that just waving a wand and casting an anti-screentear spell as a quick fix isn't possible at the moment. Sorry.

    Overall progress has been slower than expected due to various reasons, and we're also dependant on the RPi programmers.

    Quote from skodkassen

    Is there a fix to this? Has development stopped? Should I get another board instead?

    Not yet AFAIK / No / Well, since you are currently unhappy with the RPi... why not?

    Is the screen tear problem only in 4K resolution?

    Screen tearing is a known issue with the FKMS driver used in 9.2, it's fixed in LE10 nightly builds which uses the KMS driver that doesn't have that issue.

    so long,

    Hias

    I tried upgrading and thankfully the tearing was gone. Sadly most of my favorite apps didn't work, suddenly there were audio/video sync issues and random crashes. I tried to downgrade and of course it broke the rest of my apps. These are probably among the reasons this isn't official yet :)

    The joy of homebrew for the casual end user - it's awesome and it sucks at the same time, the possibilities are endless and so are the bugs. I still prefer it to a closed system curated by a corporation.

    Keep up the good work - I look forward to the next stable version :)