Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #544496
  2. Comment #85

Comment 85 for bug 544496

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In , Lists-andyfurniss (lists-andyfurniss) wrote :

(In reply to comment #21)

> Is there any way currently to just make it swap buffers without regard for my
> screens vertical retrace? I realise that means I get a lot of tearing but I'd
> rather have that than a frame rate jumping around like that.

For your chip you have to patch xf86-video-ati + disable as above. I'll attach the patch which someone posted in another bug when I find it.

I think this is going to come up again and again, so I hope in the absence of any way to change it on the fly, that it does get made into an xorg.conf option as suggested in comment 17.