From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C02138E20 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13AF5E0C19; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay-h22.telenor.se (smtprelay-h22.telenor.se [195.54.99.197]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0087E0BEC for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-h22.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96562E9E69 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:53:58 +0100 (CET) X-SMTPAUTH-B2: [a262887] X-SENDER-IP: [85.229.201.169] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArcdAEh5BlNV5cmpPGdsb2JhbAANTIcXhDq1ToMGgScDAQEBATiCWwEBBCNmCxoCJgICQxSII6sfdqEmF4EpjUIWglmBSQSuAg X-IPAS-Result: ArcdAEh5BlNV5cmpPGdsb2JhbAANTIcXhDq1ToMGgScDAQEBATiCWwEBBCNmCxoCJgICQxSII6sfdqEmF4EpjUIWglmBSQSuAg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,514,1389740400"; d="scan'208";a="819268722" Received: from c-a9c9e555.017-72-73746f39.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO [192.168.1.7]) ([85.229.201.169]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2014 22:53:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1392933222.3717.10.camel@tux> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox From: Per-Erik Westerberg To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:53:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <530510B6.50302@xunil.at> References: <53047F7E.7050901@xunil.at> <5304B434.3000303@gmail.com> <5304B82C.9060002@xunil.at> <3472164A-8254-415B-B11B-BBE14548369F@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <5304DE22.1030008@xunil.at> <5304FFD9.7090501@gmail.com> <530510B6.50302@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0dc24892-1684-484c-afd3-754d6db342fa X-Archives-Hash: 852ead4dcaf2c5daa408540d57b61388 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