Screen Tearing issues

[Aryan Pathania]

I am having some weird screen tearing issues. It worsens while viewing videos especially in full screen mode. But is is always present like in scrolling etc.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-45.51~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Mar 22 03:59:36 2021
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation UHD Graphics [8086:9b41] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Xiaomi UHD Graphics [1d72:1901]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-18 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp.
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Lsusb-t:
 /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/6p, 10000M
 /: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/12p, 480M
     |__ Port 10: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
     |__ Port 10: Dev 2, If 1, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
MachineType: TIMI Mi NoteBook 14
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-45-generic root=UUID=4fc15fe0-df3a-4920-8bbb-9f92cc23a989 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/01/2020
dmi.bios.release: 1.9
dmi.bios.vendor: TIMI
dmi.bios.version: XMRCM400P0904
dmi.board.name: TM1901
dmi.board.vendor: TIMI
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TIMI
dmi.ec.firmware.release: 1.4
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTIMI:bvrXMRCM400P0904:bd04/01/2020:br1.9:efr1.4:svnTIMI:pnMiNoteBook14:pvr:rvnTIMI:rnTM1901:rvr:cvnTIMI:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Mi Laptop
dmi.product.name: Mi NoteBook 14
dmi.product.sku: TM1901-27749
dmi.sys.vendor: TIMI
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.102-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.2.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1846398, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.