Screen Tearing Issues

[Afnan]

Hello everybody, I am a new ubuntu user and have been extremely satisfied with the OS so far. Everything is perfect and working just fine except for one issue. I am using a Dell Inspiron N5110. Whenever I am browsing through the net I experience a bit of screen tearing when I am scrolling through the web pages. Can anybody tell me a way to fix this issue? Much appreciated.

[Bucky Ball]

Welcome. Please open a terminal and post the output of this command between code tags (see the last link in my signature):

sudo lshw -C video

Thanks. When you type that in and hit enter you will be asked for your password. When you type it it will be invisible. This is normal.

Also, could you update your machine (Software Updater or via a terminal) and then look in 'Additional Drivers'. Anything there related to video cards? Don't enable anything just yet. Let us know what's there.

[Afnan]

All my software are up to date and there are no additional drivers to install. I inputted the code you just gave on my terminal and this was shown:

http://i.imgur.com/ZYp7T33.png?1

[mystics]

Is it with every web browser or just with Firefox? If it is with Firefox, you could try disabling smooth scrolling at Preferences -> Advanced.

[Afnan]

Both Mozilla and Chrome, though its a lot less on firefox. It seems to happen during scrolling of web pages on google chrome

[Afnan]

Anybody has any solution for this please?? Really need it.

[ogilvierothchild]

What is the hardware, instructions as listed in post #2?

In case this helps anyone, I have an i5 sandybridge system that I solved screentearing on, by turning off my window manager being a compositing manager. In my case, running the MATE desktop, that was done by running "dconf-editor" then going to /org/mate/marco/general and de-selecting "compositing-manager".

[Bucky Ball]

Anybody has any solution for this please?? Really need it.

What is the hardware, instructions as listed in post #2?

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This. We can't help you if you don't help us. More info, please.

[Afnan]

Welcome. Please open a terminal and post the output of this command between code tags (see the last link in my signature):

sudo lshw -C video

Thanks. When you type that in and hit enter you will be asked for your password. When you type it it will be invisible. This is normal.

Also, could you update your machine (Software Updater or via a terminal) and then look in 'Additional Drivers'. Anything there related to video cards? Don't enable anything just yet. Let us know what's there.

Machine is fully updated, and find attached the screen shot of the terminal after inputting the code.

[Afnan]

Please check the attached thumbnail (click on it) to know about the hard ware info after I inputted this code

"sudo lshw -C video"