Display Tearing

Hello Again,

I've installed the latest Mint on my Dell Laptop, but I get some type of tearing in the taskbar, like white lines in the taskbar sometimes.

I'm using the opensource gpu driver.

Code:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-73-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 7537 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 8 v: 0.1
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 07PF9F v: A00 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell v: A13 date: 06/04/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 18.2 Wh (61.9%) condition: 29.4/60.2 Wh (48.9%)
    volts: 15.6 min: 14.4 model: SANYO DELL Y1FGD3B type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-4500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Haswell rev: 1 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 798 high: 799 min/max: 800/3000 cores: 1: 798 2: 799
    3: 798 4: 799 bogomips: 14367
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0a16 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0fe4
    class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Microdia Integrated HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 2-5:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6705 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a0c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9c20 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-73-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b1 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 4000 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0f1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 2-6:4 chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 12.93 GiB (5.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD SM841 2.5 7mm 256GB
    size: 238.47 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1D0Q
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 90.64 GiB used: 12.93 GiB (14.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 43.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 43.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2155
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 34m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.53 GiB
  used: 1.9 GiB (12.3%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

 

Well, I don't know anything about the Linux environment but if there is a way to get to the NVIDIA Control Panel, usually turning off v-sync largely eliminates screen tearing in certain displays. Not sure if we're talking about the same phenomenon though.

Edit: oh wait, I see you're using an open source driver. OK, never mind.

 

Run Ubuntu.

 

There are various fixes for this listed in the Mint forum. Best to search there and decide which of the options given best suits your needs.
..

 

It does is with Ubuntu also.

 

Odd, tearing is quite rare for me with Ubuntu. Canonical usually have this problem sussed.

 

Did you try the NVIDIA driver?
Pretty easy to install from Mint.
Settings Manager -> Driver manager

 

Yes, I've switched back n forth with the same results.

 

Are we sure it is using the NVIDIA adapter as I also see an Intel integrated adapter in your list of specs. I know Windows highly prefers to use the Intel but I'm not sure for Linux.

 

+1
Something like

Code:

glxinfo|egrep "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"

should show it

 

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 750M/PCIe/SSE2