Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver Model

Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by ac29 on Saturday September 05, 2015 @05:55PM (#10176177)

Anecdotal, but these "compositor problems" are not inherent to Linux or X11. I am extremely sensitive to things like tearing, and I can tell you it simply doesn't occur on my linux machines (though it does require enabling a TearFree X11 option on my intel GPU).

Wayland, unfortunately, seems to be the type of project that has been a year or two away from usability since its first release in 2012. I suspect we'll be stuck with X11 for a while yet.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by mikekchar on Sunday September 06, 2015 @03:30AM (#10177019)

The open source Radeon driver also does a good job of avoiding tearing. I think there are some pathological cases where it can still occur, but it is pretty rare. Catalyst was terrible at avoiding tearing the last time I used it (getting on to be 3 years ago now). I haven't looked into it, but it is possible that the tearing issue may not be solvable without a KMS driver (i.e. no binary blob drivers can do it).

I used Wayland/Weston for a full work day about a year ago to try it out. It really was very nearly ready. I can't quite remember what problems I ran into, but I could do my work (as a web developer) with very few real problems. Probably it's time to look at it again.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by XorNot on Sunday September 06, 2015 @09:36AM (#10177582)

Interesting to hear, I might give it a shot too now.

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