How to Fix AMD GPU Radeon Screen Tearing in Debian, Linux Mint and Ubuntu

How to remove those horizontal lines tearing your screen when playing a video file or 3D game on AMDGPU / Radeon graphics. Screen tearing test: https://youtu.be/MfL_JkcEFbE Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/neoncipher Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/neon_cipher lspci -nnk | grep -i -EA3 "3d|display|vga" ls -l /etc/X11 mkdir ~/xorg-backup sudo mv -v /etc/X11/xorg.conf ~/xorg-backup/ sudo mv -v /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ~/xorg-backup/ sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon" Driver "radeon" Option "TearFree" "on" EndSection sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf Section "Device" Identifier "AMD" Driver "amdgpu" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection ---------------------------- The movie Tears of Steal, used in this video, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org