Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

[Per-Erik Westerberg <per-erik.westerberg@bredband.net>]

ons 2014-02-19 klockan 21:14 +0100 skrev Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Am 19.02.2014 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 
> > Yes, it can. But not in the obvious way.
> > 
> > Video cards and GPUs are complex devices implementing numerous
> > features. It is possible that your GPU/video card hardware is broken
> > wrt one or a few of these features and Mozilla apps are the only ones
> > you use that make use of these features.
> > 
> > It's a bit of a perfect storm situation and frankly, software
> > drivers are more likely to provoke it than broken hardware. I would
> > keep the possibility in the back of my head to be checked way down
> > the line of possibilities though.
> > 
> > Meanwhile, if your hardware vendor provides a hardware diagnostics
> > tool you could run it for fun and see what it says. Those tests are
> > fairly rapid so you don't lose much by giving it a spin.
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> I could boot from a live cd to cross check ... will try that.
> > 
> > or you could do that ^^^ instead :-)
> 
> I might do that, thanks. An ubuntu-live-cd showed no problems. Although
> for sure it was a different set of software ... other kernel,
> nvidia-drivers, gnome ....
> 
> We'll see ...
> 

I have seen this flickering in gnome-terminal, in nxclient and also in
the window title of chromium. I am using gentoo-sources-3.13.3,
nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 and chromium-33.0.1750.70. Both in
gnome-terminal and in nxclient it looked like some kind of
"blink-attribute" was used. ;)

  BR / P-E