Radeon X.Org Driver Still Trying To Eliminate Tearing, Adds TearFree Option

[RussianNeuroMancer]

How did you switch to the modesetting driver? I tried looking, but couldnt find anything. Need a hint, would love to try it

Try something like this:

Section "Device"
	Identifier "device"
	Driver     "modesetting"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "dri2"
        Load "glamoregl"
EndSection

[ObiWan]

Isn't the modesetting driver already tear-free? I switched over to using the modesetting driver when I installed xorg 1.17, and find my user experience much better for it. Drop the -ati driver already, it is not needed any more.

Tried to switch to it, but somehow modesetting sees my two monitors both connected to DVI-0 which drives xrandr and co completely insane.

[sandain]

How did you switch to the modesetting driver? I tried looking, but couldnt find anything. Need a hint, would love to try it

I'm sure there are better ways, but I simply removed all xserver-xorg-video-* packages (fglrx-* too). With 1.17+, modesetting is built into the server so there is no need for the other drivers. I do get errors in the Xorg.0.log file stating that xorg couldn't load -ati or -fglrx but it otherwise functions as expected.

[sandain]

Tried to switch to it, but somehow modesetting sees my two monitors both connected to DVI-0 which drives xrandr and co completely insane.

That is odd. You should submit a bug report.

[ciupenhauer]

Try something like this:

Section "Device"
	Identifier "device"
	Driver     "modesetting"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "dri2"
        Load "glamoregl"
EndSection

Thanks, already went ahead and uninstalled -ati driver and it automatically switched to modesetting. Do you know if we can enable DRI3 with this driver by now? I tried Option "DRI3" in the above config file but log says option is ignored.
Thanks