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 ...
