On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:35:06 -0600 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running Xwindows on Sarge. I have an S3 Savage video card. > I have a strange problem in web browsers that use the Mozilla, > i.e. all but Opera. My problem seems to occur with only one > web site, namely www.theregister.co.uk , and not always even > with that site. Sometimes when I bring up a page at that site, > I get a region on my screen that is filled with narrow horizontal > black and white lines. In particular, I just opened > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/20/sp2_scripting_vuln/ > > amd got such a region on the far left of the screen, top to bottom, > and 55mm wide. I can clear them from the screen by ctl-alt-F1 > followed by alt-F7. > > I have several ideas as to what could cause this: > > 1. video card hardware is dieing. > 2. bad XF86Config-4 > 3. uniquely weird html at that web site only > 4. bug in Savage driver > 5. bug in Mozilla > > I don't really like any of these theories, but still, the problem > is there. Does anyone have any other ideas? > > AND in particular, does anyone on the list have similar hardware, run > Sarge, and either sees the problem, or doesn't see it? Perhaps, you > would be willing to help off-list by running tests and sharing > results? I too am having this problem with a S3 Savage 4 card, running Sarge. I only noticed it after upgrading to Sarge. Since it only happened after the upgrade I haven't considered possibility #1 much. Working with html for a living, I haven't been able to find anything that would look like it would cause #3 (there are two websites that cause this - sometimes - for me; one being www.washtimes.com). I have always thought this was probably #5, but can't reproduce it often enough to file a bug report. It does, however, seem to happen the most often when I'm using Galeon (it probably doesn't help that I almost always have about 9 windows and 50+ webpages open, either). I would definitely be interested in working with someone to help track this down; it gets a little irritating at times, since this is on the computer I use for work all day long. Also, I'm using Ice for my window manager. I've seen some other quirks that make me wonder if it's not a weird interaction between Ice and Mozilla to cause this problem. Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #26: .vbs = Virus Bearing Script?
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