It either works or works not. But ofc you have to reboot after you've created the file.
This didn't work for me on a Chromebox with 2955u integrated Intel GPU. In fact the tearing is worse when this xorg.conf file is added and I reboot, occurring throughout the screen as opposed to in the top 30ish% without it.
If it started after a Chrome update it's probably related to Chrome. So I guess we have to wait for a bugfix then.
Chrome just updated and tearing is still present (particularly the top third of both windowed and full screen video playback). Could anybody else who is on an Intel integrated GPU check this video in Chrome and see if they experience screen tearing?:
Is anybody else getting screen tearing during video playback in Chrome?
I've been running RR-20190404-1cc7fad on an Asus Chromebox (Haswell Celeron 2955u model with integrated Intel graphics) with no issues, but after a recent Chrome update, video playback started to display horrible tearing (best exhibited by opening this YouTube tearing test: YouTube. This same YouTube video doesn't tear in the YouTube Kodi add-on and neither do any videos I playback directly in Kodi or the Plex addon).
I updated to RR-20190423-716b9f8 and this made no difference at all. I also tried creating a custom xorg.conf in the ~/.config directory with the following settings:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "INTEL Corporation"
Option "TripleBuffer" "false"
Option "TearFree" "false"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
# fixes tearing
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSectionThis didn't make a difference. I also tried this xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSectionas detailed here: Tearing Intel Xorg but again no dice.
Maybe something in Chrome has changed recently?
Debug log file here: