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authorGriffin Smith <grfn@gws.fyi>2020-12-01T16·55-0500
committerglittershark <grfn@gws.fyi>2020-12-01T17·17+0000
commit6ecd36f4251d88740f32b428e78df639016df9be (patch)
tree27588871137735bb74df3be6c1ecf29845628a17 /users/glittershark
parent0e4d60cb9ae3a83de0430c04347d980361f7520c (diff)
fix(gs/yeren): Attempt to work around some of the text flickering issues r/1975
This is a whole pile of things suggested by the internet to fix the
weird text flickering issues I've been seeing. upon first look it seems
like one of the kernel params (or all of them, or some combination of
them) fixed the issue.

Change-Id: Idc98902b46d4cba3bab367f6e22fb9ad10b26a26
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/2216
Reviewed-by: glittershark <grfn@gws.fyi>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Diffstat (limited to 'users/glittershark')
-rw-r--r--users/glittershark/system/system/machines/yeren.nix26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/users/glittershark/system/system/machines/yeren.nix b/users/glittershark/system/system/machines/yeren.nix
index 541da0969e0e..97298ac0acd9 100644
--- a/users/glittershark/system/system/machines/yeren.nix
+++ b/users/glittershark/system/system/machines/yeren.nix
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
     kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
     kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" ];
     extraModulePackages = [ ];
+    kernelParams = [
+      "i915.preliminary_hw_support=1"
+      "i915.enable_rc6=0"
+      "i915.enable_psr=0"
+    ];
   };
 
   fileSystems = {
@@ -43,4 +48,25 @@
   };
 
   swapDevices = [{ device = "/dev/mapper/cryptswap"; }];
+
+  services.xserver = {
+    exportConfiguration = true;
+    extraConfig = ''
+      Section "Device"
+        Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
+        Driver      "intel"
+        Option      "TripleBuffer" "true"
+        Option      "TearFree"     "true"
+        Option      "DRI"          "true"
+        Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
+      EndSection
+    '';
+  };
+
+  hardware.opengl.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
+    vaapiIntel
+    vaapiVdpau
+    libvdpau-va-gl
+    intel-media-driver
+  ];
 }