Originally Posted by
ExGrunt
Hi,
The graphic drivers tend to be in separate packages. Each release will have a base version included with it. With many packages there are cross dependencies which prevent going back to a version from a previous release. That said I would not expect a graphics driver to have many, if indeed any, cross dependencies.
What you may have to do is get the package source for the previous version and compile on 16.04.
At this point I have to say that my experience is on Centos/Red Hat which has different tools for package management than Ubuntu (which is a Debian derivative), so I cannot give you an Ubuntu Howto - sorry.
EG
Ah - had a little look into this and have upgraded the kernel which seems to have reduced some of the tearing issues but it's by no means fixed...
I've thought about going back to 15.10 but it's too much effort to downgrade and given the number of people complaining I would hope Canonical has a fix on the way.