[RESPONDED] Fw13 13th gen screen tearing

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Hi! I’m back at solving this, this time with framework support on the line.

Check out what I mean by “screen tearing”: Fw-13thgen-screentearing gameplay.mp4 - Google Drive

This example is with world of warcraft open, but it happens with all youtube videos, basic browsing, even reading and editing text in Firefox or emacs. It seems especially agitated by browsers and electron apps (like slack). This is a permanent state of affairs with the 13th gen mainboard in my laptop.

I had tried to upgrade from the 11th gen mainboard, so typically what I do is daily drive the 11th gen mainboard and keep the 13th gen in a rack server position (so it doesn’t need graphics).

I’m currently running kernel version 6.9.7, but earlier today I was running 6.6.36. I enumerated all the 6.x kernels available several months ago last time I attempted to fix this.

I have enumerated all of the window manager, compositor, and graphics settings (several months ago). Nothing works.

I run nixos. For the initiated, here is my config declare/machines/laptop at main · quinn-dougherty/declare · GitHub

But here’s the catch: I booted a live USB media of ubuntu LTS (back when 22 was the latest lts) and it did the same thing!

So yeah. Can anyone relate? Has anyone been down this road?

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Would be interesting to know, If it’s prevalent as your Nixos install, or less? Have you tried it with Ubuntu 24.04?

Also can you confirm if it’s with the underlying graphics card? or just the screen?
if it’s capture by a desktop screen recorder app then it’s likely graphics/X or wayland.

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i have not tried it with 24.04 yet. When I tried it with 22.04, it was just as prevalent as in the nixos.

I’ve confirmed that the problem is also on external monitors, but interestingly I haven’t tried using a desktop screen recorder. That’ll be my next experiment, next time that chip is in the laptop (I switched back to 11th gen for a few days)