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William <w@vieta.uk> writes:

> The Arch Wiki says that Debian and some others suggest uninstalling
> xf86-video-intel and relying on the modesetting driver.
>
> I have personally found this to help with tearing, but naturally YMMV.
>
> See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Installation
> for more details.

Many distros default to using the built-in xorg modesetting driver.

https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/intel-graphics-gen4-and-newer-now-defaults-to-modesetting-driver-on-x/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelKMS

Could those affected by this bug see if it works for them? Maybe we
should follow suit.

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