Bug 256919

Summary: x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb: Does it not have double buffering to prevent screen tearing?
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Sean Lute <seanlute>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-x11 (Nobody) <x11>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: grahamperrin, x11, zeising
Priority: --- Flags: linimon: maintainer-feedback? (x11)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   

Description Sean Lute 2021-07-01 10:00:33 UTC 
I have screen tearing when using the scfb driver. It's the only Xorg display driver that I can use with my laptop computer. Double buffering is a programming technique to prevent screen tearing.
Comment 1 Niclas Zeising freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-07-02 06:45:41 UTC 
I suggest you talk to upstream about implementing double buffering in scfb.

Upstream can be found here https://github.com/rayddteam/xf86-video-scfb