I was wondering if I could get some help with this.
I am getting frame tearing on my tv when I play videos using mplayer. I get no tearing when I play it on my primary monitor. I didnt have this problem with 11.2:
I am using a nvidia 9500gt, I have a crt monitor and my hdtv hooked up to it.
The tv is connected by hdmi. I am running 11.3 with nvidia driver from the site,and kde 4.4.93. Also it should be noted that the tearing happened as well in kde 4.4.4 that was default. Disabling compositing makes no difference. In nvidia setting opengl is set to sync to vblank, and x server xvideo settings is set to sync to the tv (although it wont save that setting) and still with the tearing.:sarcastic:
my xorg.conf
nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
I do NOT know what could be the problem (just to make certain you understand that) so I do NOT think I can help. But others might if you provide more information.
Did you look inside /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if there are any errors? Inside /home/youusername/.xsession-errors to see if there were any helpful errors ? How about opening those log files, and copying their content EACH to a SEPARATE pastebin - collaborative debugging tool webpage (pressing submit), obtain the URL-website address of each posted file, and post ONLY the URL/address here, so those who know more than I about this might have a suggestion.
I know your xorg.conf has the nvidia driver specified, but in 11.3 the nouveau driver is notorious to remove. Are you certain your PC is actually using the nvidia driver? I can not tell from reading your post 3 times if you black listed the nouveau driver and if you applied the appropriate KMS settings.
I added nomodset to /boot/grub/menu.lst.
and I didn’t set NO_KMS_IN_INITRD before but it I tried it now and it made no difference
I looked in the package manager and the nouveau driver was not installed
Here is some more info (I used tinypaste because pastebin didnt show all the text):
Xorg.0.log
16.498] X.Org X Server 1.8.0 Release Date: 2010-04-02 16.518]… - 12644f](http://tinypaste.com/12644f)
.xsession-errors /etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started. sourcing… - bb2db
I note many errors in the .xsession-errors, and I note the NVIDIA driver being loaded in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
Did you try to create a custom xorg.conf file with ‘nvidia-config’ ?
Try booting direct to run level 3, and then login as a regular user, type ‘su’ to switch to root permissions, and then run: ‘nvidia-config’ to create a custom xorg.conf file. Then reboot and see if that works. Ensure you still have the NO_KMS_IN_INITRD to YES, and also ensure you have blacklisted the nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist file.
If you need further guidance to get that exact, please post.
I tried all that. No luck
After messing around with it, I’m pretty sure it is an issue with vdpau not respecting the x server xvideo settings sync to this device setting. I switch the output driver to xv (0 -NV17 video texture) in mplayer and the tearing went away, then I disabled the xvideo sync to this device and it had the same tearing as before. But now I’m getting slow frame rates in 1080p videos, I’ll just reboot in windows when I want to watch those, which isn’t very often.
Thanks for trying to help.