Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

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 ...