Re: [vox-tech] Serious Xorg problem
On 05/04/2012 03:13 PM, Richard Harke wrote: I'm at Panera bread using their wi-fi. After I logged in with panera, I opened another tab. Then a box-image (badly corrupted) from panera appeared over the second tab. Even worse this box now appears over all windows based applications, emacs and okular, in particular. It is still there even after I kill the application and re-start it. It also appears over the other browser I wasn't using at the time. This makes me believe it is something in Xorg. But as far as I can tell, no libs or bins were modified. This on debian squeeze for amd-64. (on an asus laptop) This is making the machine nearly unusable. Sounds like a normal video corruption. I'd logout and login. Which graphics driver are you using? Chipset? For ATI and Nvidia the binary drive from ATI/Nvidia is generally the more reliable. Intel's opensource drivers have been pretty good lately. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Serious Xorg problem
I didn't think any video corruption was normal. In any case, by killing and restarting X, the problem went away. I'm running the nvidia driver, version 260.19.36, apparently from March of last year. On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Bill Broadley b...@broadley.org wrote: On 05/04/2012 03:13 PM, Richard Harke wrote: I'm at Panera bread using their wi-fi. After I logged in with panera, I opened another tab. Then a box-image (badly corrupted) from panera appeared over the second tab. Even worse this box now appears over all windows based applications, emacs and okular, in particular. It is still there even after I kill the application and re-start it. It also appears over the other browser I wasn't using at the time. This makes me believe it is something in Xorg. But as far as I can tell, no libs or bins were modified. This on debian squeeze for amd-64. (on an asus laptop) This is making the machine nearly unusable. Sounds like a normal video corruption. I'd logout and login. Which graphics driver are you using? Chipset? For ATI and Nvidia the binary drive from ATI/Nvidia is generally the more reliable. Intel's opensource drivers have been pretty good lately. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] Serious Xorg problem
I'm at Panera bread using their wi-fi. After I logged in with panera, I opened another tab. Then a box-image (badly corrupted) from panera appeared over the second tab. Even worse this box now appears over all windows based applications, emacs and okular, in particular. It is still there even after I kill the application and re-start it. It also appears over the other browser I wasn't using at the time. This makes me believe it is something in Xorg. But as far as I can tell, no libs or bins were modified. This on debian squeeze for amd-64. (on an asus laptop) This is making the machine nearly unusable. Richard Harke ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Serious Xorg problem
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 03:13:14PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote: I'm at Panera bread using their wi-fi. After I logged in with panera, I opened another tab. Then a box-image (badly corrupted) from panera appeared over the second tab. Even worse this box now appears over all windows based applications, emacs and okular, in particular. It is still there even after I kill the application and re-start it. It also appears over the other browser I wasn't using at the time. This makes me believe it is something in Xorg. But as far as I can tell, no libs or bins were modified. This on debian squeeze for amd-64. (on an asus laptop) This is making the machine nearly unusable. Are you able to take a screenshot? Also, take a look at this, and see if it helps. http://shallowsky.com/blog/programming/killing-tooltips.html (yes, this is the same Akkana who spoke at LUGOD last month :) ) Her tool has to do with tooltips, but I've also seen Chromium (in previous versions; not recent) where when I do a right-click over an image, sometimes suddenly a chunk of the browser (what was behind the right-click menu) remains on my screen. They would go away when the browser quit, but would remain until that point. Closing the tab or parent window wouldn't suffice; the browser would need to be quit completely (e.g., close the final window). Very annoying. -- -bill! Sent from my computer ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
