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I am experiencing some severe screen tearing on Chrome on 16.04. My PC has an AMD APU (A4-3400 with Radeon HD 6000 graphics) and I am not able to install proprietary drivers for it because it causes the login screen to reset, so I prefer to stick with open-source drivers.

I tried to turn-off hardware acceleration, which was indicated here

sudo lshw -c video output:
description: VGA compatible controller product: Sumo [Radeon HD 6410D] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 1 bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:28 memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:f000(size=256) memory:fef00000-fef3ffff memory:c0000-dffff

CV01HatsuneASD
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I have three suggestions for you:

Install updated open source video drivers

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install amd64-microcode

This will update open source video AMD driver to more recent version and install CPU microcode

Disable DRI3 acceleration for Chromium based browsers

echo 'export LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1' >> ~/.profile
# restart after doing this

Try the most recent optimized kernel from XanMod

echo 'deb http://deb.xanmod.org releases main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod-kernel.list
wget -qO - http://deb.xanmod.org/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-xanmod-4.11
Darko Miletic
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