[Solved] Screen tearing with Intel's GPU

After some time after starting to use EndeavourOS on the new laptop, I noticed some screen tearing when playing videos in firefox, playing video games or in general when the screen needs to be updated often. Looking for a solution I ended up on the wiki page that talks about Intel GPUs, I tried to copy the configuration example but this does not allow X.org to start. Do you have any advice?

Here inxi’s output:
http://ix.io/3mcX
And here the configuration that I tried:
Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection
I have tried with and without the Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"

Hello @Airax
Have you removed xf86-video-intel

Edit: Probably need to reboot also before it take effect

I already removed it some time ago

What window manager / desktop environment are you running? often this can be solved by making tweaks to the compositor (although in an ideal world it wouldn’t tear either way)

@Airax
Maybe try this kernel parameter in the grub command line in /etc/default/grub and generate a new grub file with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

i915.enable_psr=0

Im using bspwm as window manager and picom as compositor.
picom’s config:
http://ix.io/3miL
bspwm’s config:
http://ix.io/3miN

Do I need to add i915.enable_psr=0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT or to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX ?

To the deafult grub command line in /etc/default/grub

Example:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet i915.enable_psr=0 loglevel=3 nowatchdog”

Save the file with this added and the run

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Then reboot and try it.

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So it seems to resolve the problem with videos in firefox but doesn’t resolve the problem in Wakfu.

What is Wakfu?
Edit: I see it’s a game. So probably something in the game platform.

Edit2: Just see if everything else is okay in Linux and then you’ll have to look into the forums on that game.

Yes it is a games, I’m actualy thinking that is a problem with Java. Anyway the other problem are resolved so I think thats’s time to close the thread

It may be that is the case. I see on their forum regarding small display issue.

“The required version for WAKFU is the Java SE Development Kit 8u161”

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