diff --git a/x/installing/xorg-config.xml b/x/installing/xorg-config.xml index b4e98145b8..430e632ddf 100644 --- a/x/installing/xorg-config.xml +++ b/x/installing/xorg-config.xml @@ -480,32 +480,18 @@ EndSection EOF - With modern Xorg, little or no additional graphic card configuration - is necessary. If you should need extra options passed to your video - driver, for instance, you could use something like the following - (again, executed as the &root; user): + When you drag a window in twm (or any non-compositing window + manager) horizontally, you may observe that the vertical borders + of the window are broken into multiple segments. This is an example + of the visual artifacts called screen tearing. + To resolve the screen tearing problems, create a configuration file + that enables the TearFree option. Note that you must have the + Tearfree patch applied from for this to function properly, and it may + increase memory allocation and reduce performance. -cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/videocard-0.conf << "EOF" -Section "Device" - Identifier "Videocard0" - Driver "modesetting" - VendorName "Videocard vendor" - BoardName "ATI Radeon 7500" - Option "AccelMethod" "none" -EndSection -EOF - - - Some graphics cards may have problems with screen tearing now that Xorg - has moved to using the modesetting driver in BLFS. To resolve the screen - tearing problems, create a configuration file that enables the TearFree - option. Note that you must have the Tearfree patch applied from - for this to function - properly. - - -cat > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-tearfree.conf << "EOF" +cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-tearfree.conf << "EOF" Section "Device" Identifier "Graphics Adapter" Driver "modesetting" @@ -513,6 +499,14 @@ EOF EndSection EOF + + With modern Xorg, little or no additional graphic card configuration + is necessary. If you should need extra options passed to your video + driver, add them into the Device section as well. + The options supported by the modesetting driver are documented in + the man page modesetting(4). + +