Video tearing using catalyst 8.4 and a Radeon HD 3600

Hi,
I'm experiencing very annoying video tearing problems using my new device (especially during fast movements, travelings...). The problem doesn't seem to affect 3D games, but I don't play a lot.
My googling helped me find out this had something to do with vsync, but I don't understand much all about this... I've tried several options for my xorg.conf , nothing seems to change my problem. XVideo is working according to xvinfo.
I've noticed a strange thing using the catalyst control center. I have a LCD screen, its refresh rate is 60Hz ; this appears correctly in the "Display Manager" of amdcccle, but just below, there's a "Digital Screen" section where I can see 85 Hz. May this be related ?
What are exactly the xorg.conf options that I should use ?
Thanks for helping me !

That might  be a driver problem, but it was supposed to be fixed in 8.4.
Anyways try mine:
(Notice: # Option "Textured2D" "on"   ...you could try to uncomment that for better performance but it messes up my colors if compositing is not on)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "blank" "2"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# Load "GLcore"
Load "ddc"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Corepointer"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
# Option "Textured2D" "on"
Option "TexturedXrender" "on"
Option "UseFastTLS" "1"
Option "BackingStore" "on"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
Option "XVideo" "Enable"
EndSection
Edit: Your supposed to use the xv video render with that config. If that fails try opengl. And smplayer is the best video player btw
Last edited by Mikko777 (2008-05-05 12:30:58)

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