Intel screen tearing solution

 

While scrolling through web pages or watching videos, the screen will experience some flickering. This phenomenon, called screen tearing, can sometimes occur in Linux. While not a major concern, it can be a bit of a nuisance. However, this minor issue can be resolved with a simple file.

If you experience screen tearing as described above and your graphics card is Intel, the solution is as follows.

First, open a terminal and become root with the sudo -i command as below.

sudo -i

Then enter the entire command below into the terminal and press enter.

cat >/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf<< EOF
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
EOF

After this process, restart your computer. This solution is usually the solution for Intel screen tearing.

There are many options that can be added to this file, as in the table below, but they are not needed much and are not added randomly.

Driver      "intel"

Option      "Backlight"             "intel_backlight"

Option      "AccelMethod"       "sna"

Option      "TearFree"             "false"

Option      "RenderAccel"         "true"

Option "SwapbuffersWait"     "false"

Option    "DRI"                    "3"

Option          "Throttle"                  "false"

Option      "FramebufferCompression"    "false"

Option          "TripleBuffer"              "false"

Option          "Shadow"                    "false"

Option          "LinearFramebuffer"         "true"

Option          "RelaxedFencing"            "false"

Option          "BufferCache"