On 01/14/2017 02:00 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:19:30 +0000 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said: > >> On 01/12/2017 10:53 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:33:45 +0000 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said: >> [...] >>>> On one machine (only) running my new e, the URL bar and bookmarks bar >>>> (only) in chromium-browser now flicker *violently* from time to time. >>>> >>>> In my general ignorance of video, I have put this down to the video card >>>> and/or driver conflicting with something. Fortunately it doesn't happen >>>> often enough to worry me. >>> >>> not an nvidia driver perchance? >> >> Maybe. New Dell something-or-other, standard office fodder. > > maybe? how do you not know what gpu you have or that is being used?
Because I have never needed to ask or specify — my requirements are more for cpu and memory than for graphics. I checked: it's a Dell XPS 8900. > if it's nvidia and you're using nvidia drivers it's a whole buhahah > to get the proprietary drivers installed + working in addition to or > as a replacemenet of mesa... if tis a modern-ish nvidia gpu nouveau > (mesa) won't even work... I am aware that nvidia graphics drivers cause problems — I've seen comments and complaints about them for years — but I have never experienced problems, so maybe I have just managed to avoid them. I looked up my specification, which says: >> Video >> Controller: >> Integrated Intel HD Graphics 530 >> Discrete • NVIDIA GT 730 >> • NVIDIA GTX 745 >> • NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti >> • NVIDIA GTX 960 >> • AMD Radeon R9 370 >> Memory: >> Integrated Shared system memory >> Discrete Up to 4 GB GDDR5 > this matters. so know. It certainly matters if you have problems. > because nvidia drivers seem to have a bug with buffer age support. > it's specific to their drivers. there's a work around to disable > partial render but knowing your driver is important... :/ Right. But the problem I described [above] ONLY occurs when using the new Enlightenment I compiled last week. It does not occur when using the xfce or xubuntu display managers, and it did not occur when I was using the repo-supplied e17 Ubuntu package. As I said, it's minimal. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
