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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #600178
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 600178

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dack (dack) wrote :

Disabling compositing in xorg.conf seems to stop the tearing (so far, anyway):

Section "Extensions"
 Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

That seems to point to an xorg bug of some sort.