Just informing about testing results: I also have Intel Haswell graphics and Timo's fix helped me. Using XBMC for a week with Timo's fix and no problems. Tearing is gone. No side effects observed.
P.S. Thanks a lot Timo! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1280665 Title: libsdl1.2 always uses backingstore which causes tearing in modern X servers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libsdl/+bug/1280665/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
