I just tested the patched driver and it solves the problem for me. After disabling textured video in xorg.conf, mplayer, totem-gstreamer and vlc use the overlay port and the screen tearing is gone. So with this patch enabled again I think we'll be able to consider this bug as solved.
Flash does also still have video tearing for me, but I think it simply doesn't use xv but videos still play fine and don't suddenly stop for me as j described. I also don't see the initial screen flicker that has been reported. tghazali: After installing the new driver, you can disable textured video in your xorg.conf. To do this, simply add Option "TexturedVideo" "false" in the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Option "TexturedVideo" "false" EndSection Finally, thanks to all the people posting great workarounds here and of course to Bryce Harrington for solving this thing! -- video tearing with textured video on intel card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs