Screen Tearing Compiz Unity Nvidia Intel hybrid integrated

[Hudson Kendall]

I've tried several solutions to fix screen tearing in 16.04, but nothing seems to work. Screen tearing is so bad that the display is fragmented into 2-4 horizontal and diagonal sections during any scrolling event, along with artifacts while updating the screen in any way, like videos, new tabs, opening programs, moving windows, etc... This issue started occurring after a re-installation of libunity-core-6.0-9 and compiz packages. I attempted to remedy the situation by installing Nvidia drivers, thinking they might help compared to nouveau, but no change.

This page seems to have useful information
http://howtoeverything.net/linux/issues/finally-no-more-tearing-anywhere-mate-desktop-and-compiz

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity 7.4.5+16.04.20190312-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-126.129~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-126-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.03.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:03:00.0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 384.130 Wed Mar 21 03:37:26 PDT 2018
 GCC version: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.27
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Dec 9 14:53:13 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bbswitch, 0.8, 4.15.0-126-generic, x86_64: installed
 nvidia-384, 384.130, 4.15.0-126-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [1028:05e0]
   Subsystem: Dell GeForce GT 720M [1028:05e0]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-22 (1052 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5540
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-126-generic root=UUID=3649951d-4784-483a-ac30-916aca6dcdc3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/01/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 015YFJ
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd05/01/2014:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5540:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn015YFJ:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5540
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20180221-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2~16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A