xserver-xorg with tearfree modesetting

PPA description

Contains Sultan Alsawaf's patches from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1006 (specifically https://github.com/kerneltoast/xserver/tree/new-tearfree-21.1.5)
and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1042 applied to Xserver 21.1.x compiled for Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy).

Note that "TearFree" is not enabled by default and requires something such as the following added to xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Graphics Adapter"
    Driver "modesetting"
    Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:jeff250/xserver-xorg-with-tearfree-modesetting to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeff250/xserver-xorg-with-tearfree-modesetting
sudo apt update
        
Technical details about this PPA

This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources.

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deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/jeff250/xserver-xorg-with-tearfree-modesetting/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/jeff250/xserver-xorg-with-tearfree-modesetting/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
Signing key:
1024R/95CE2B89A0CE8A4382932BD939C47221FA6CCFC7 (What is this?)
Fingerprint:
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For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Jeffrey Knockel.

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xorg-server 2:21.1.12-1ubuntu2 Jeffrey Knockel ()
xorg-server 2:21.1.12-1ubuntu2~jammy Jeffrey Knockel ()
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Latest updates

  • xorg-server 4 weeks ago
    Failed to build: amd64 i386
  • xorg-server 4 weeks ago
    Successfully built