[gentoo-user] video display problem

[gentoo-user] video display problem

[Bruce Hill]

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Last night my laptop began having two problems.

First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no
output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about
7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the
pointer for another 2s or so. Pasting into urvxt seems instantaneous, although
last night I did have some issues with a tab or urxvt where I had ssh'ed into
a server running irssi in screen -- the backspace key seemed to be stuck, but
that stopped after I did a ^A^D and then "screen -dx 17169.pts-3.server".

Second, there is an image from Workspace 1 showing up on top of the app
running in Workspace 2. The first screenshot I took to show this had the
xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter app appearing there, also. I've used it many
times and never saw this behavior. I tried another screenshot to move it off
the app (which, btw, is Teamviewer), to show that it was still in the desktop
area, and it left these <whatever you call it's> in the second screenshot.
Actually, in the second screenshot you can't see anything that was dragged off
of the Teamviewer (open app) area, just whatever is on it.

Yesterday this laptop had four updates:
dev-libs/gmp-5.1.2
media-video/ffmpeg-1.0.7
net-firewall/iptables-1.4.20
app-admin/logrotate-3.8.6

All of them are stable amd64, and there were no USE flag changes to them or to
make.conf.

It seems ffmpeg is the only one of those that could have caused it, so I
thought to downgrade and see. However, there doesn't seem to be any downgrade
path for ffmpeg:

mingdao@baruch ~ $ eshowkw media-video/ffmpeg
Keywords for media-video/ffmpeg:
         |                           | u            |  
         | a a             p     s   | n            |  
         | l m   h i m m   p s   p   | u s          | r
         | p d a p a 6 i p c 3   a x | s l          | e
         | h 6 r p 6 8 p p 6 9 s r 8 | e o          | p
         | a 4 m a 4 k s c 4 0 h c 6 | d t          | o
---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
  0.10.9 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0.10       | gentoo
---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
[I]1.0.7 | + + + + + o ~ + + o o + + | o 0          | gentoo
   1.0.8 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o            | gentoo
   1.2.3 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | #            | gentoo
   1.2.4 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | o            | gentoo
---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
[M]2.0.2 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0/52.55.55 | gentoo
 [M]9999 | o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o            | gentoo
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting

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Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

[Bruce Hill]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
> Last night my laptop began having two problems.
> 
> First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no
> output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about
> 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the
> pointer for another 2s or so. Pasting into urvxt seems instantaneous, although
> last night I did have some issues with a tab or urxvt where I had ssh'ed into
> a server running irssi in screen -- the backspace key seemed to be stuck, but
> that stopped after I did a ^A^D and then "screen -dx 17169.pts-3.server".
> 
> Second, there is an image from Workspace 1 showing up on top of the app
> running in Workspace 2. The first screenshot I took to show this had the
> xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter app appearing there, also. I've used it many
> times and never saw this behavior. I tried another screenshot to move it off
> the app (which, btw, is Teamviewer), to show that it was still in the desktop
> area, and it left these <whatever you call it's> in the second screenshot.
> Actually, in the second screenshot you can't see anything that was dragged off
> of the Teamviewer (open app) area, just whatever is on it.
> 
> Yesterday this laptop had four updates:
> dev-libs/gmp-5.1.2
> media-video/ffmpeg-1.0.7
> net-firewall/iptables-1.4.20
> app-admin/logrotate-3.8.6
> 
> All of them are stable amd64, and there were no USE flag changes to them or to
> make.conf.
> 
> It seems ffmpeg is the only one of those that could have caused it, so I
> thought to downgrade and see. However, there doesn't seem to be any downgrade
> path for ffmpeg:
> 
> mingdao@baruch ~ $ eshowkw media-video/ffmpeg
> Keywords for media-video/ffmpeg:
>          |                           | u            |  
>          | a a             p     s   | n            |  
>          | l m   h i m m   p s   p   | u s          | r
>          | p d a p a 6 i p c 3   a x | s l          | e
>          | h 6 r p 6 8 p p 6 9 s r 8 | e o          | p
>          | a 4 m a 4 k s c 4 0 h c 6 | d t          | o
> ---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
>   0.10.9 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0.10       | gentoo
> ---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
> [I]1.0.7 | + + + + + o ~ + + o o + + | o 0          | gentoo
>    1.0.8 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o            | gentoo
>    1.2.3 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | #            | gentoo
>    1.2.4 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | o            | gentoo
> ---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
> [M]2.0.2 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0/52.55.55 | gentoo
>  [M]9999 | o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o            | gentoo

News ... I stopped Teamviewer and the bad behavior stopped. I restarted it and
all seems well, atm.
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Happy Penguin Computers               >')
126 Fenco Drive                       ( \
Tupelo, MS 38801                       ^^
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http://happypenguincomputers.com/

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote
> Last night my laptop began having two problems.
> 
> First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no
> output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about
> 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the
> pointer for another 2s or so. Pasting into urvxt seems instantaneous, although
> last night I did have some issues with a tab or urxvt where I had ssh'ed into
> a server running irssi in screen -- the backspace key seemed to be stuck, but
> that stopped after I did a ^A^D and then "screen -dx 17169.pts-3.server".

  Run a "top" session, and see what's eating cpu/memory.

> Second, there is an image from Workspace 1 showing up on top of the app
> running in Workspace 2.

  Are you running an Nvidia video card with their proprietary driver?
Youtube, even static/paused Youtube images would cause that on such a
setup I once had.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

[Bruce Hill]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:57:14PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
>   Are you running an Nvidia video card with their proprietary driver?
> Youtube, even static/paused Youtube images would cause that on such a
> setup I once had.

I already fixed it and answered my own thread. ;)

And, no, I feel the same way about Nvidia as Mr. Torvalds.
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Happy Penguin Computers               >')
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting