Bad screen tearing on Netflix/Silverlight?

Hello, I have a MacBook Pro 2.66 with the NVidio 330M card.
I've been trying to address this in any way I could find, but to no avail. I even downloaded the CUVA from NVidia. No good.
On fas panning on any movie, the screen tears.
I'm running 10.7 (but it used to happen on my other MacBook on 10.5). Everything is up to date.
Any solution? Input?
Thanks!

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
The options are outlined in the intel man page ("man intel"); the file in Arch will be /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "Intel"
Option "TearFree" "True"
EndSection
This is described in the wiki here...
Thanks for the speed response!
Unforutnatley i don't have the '20-intel.conf' file?
I only have these:
[stephen@Archey ~]$ cd /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
[stephen@Archey xorg.conf.d]$ ls
10-evdev.conf 10-quirks.conf 50-synaptics.conf
Any ideas?

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