[gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Here's an example: http://heritage.stsci.edu/2007/16/supplemental.html. Does

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Bernhard Berger
Hi Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Here's an example: http://heritage.stsci.edu/2007/16/supplemental.html. Does

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 30 April 2007 11:37, Bernhard Berger wrote: Same problem here. About Firefox says: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070417 Firefox/2.0.0.3. It seems that it is not a x86_64 related problem. I see the problem with firefox under windows also... -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Barry Walsh
Bernhard Berger wrote: Hi Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Here's an example:

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Here's an example:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Hmm - I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big white splotch on web page]

2007-04-30 Thread Ferris McCormick
Peter Davoust wrote: I also get a ginourmous box in the center of the screen. It's happened to me before, but I've never been so inclined to fix it. It used to even happen on the macromedia site, as I remember. - -Peter On 4/29/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big white splotch on web page]

2007-04-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 30 April 2007 13:24, Ferris McCormick wrote: I'm assuming this is a Flash problem. I don't see it on my Windows box.. Probably not. This page displays incorrectly on sparc with both opera and firefox. sparc does not support flash at all. (For me, on all systems, both forefox

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
This is in fact a scripting error. It doesn't have anything to do with the scroll bar, though. I have my resolution at 1066x1200 which provides ample room for the page to render and the scrollbar is never invoked. At any rate, I have seen this error before with my own scripts. In essence, this

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big white splotch on web page]

2007-04-30 Thread Fabio A Correa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello people, Etaoin, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Seems javascript-related. I'm using the noscript firefox extension, and loading the page with javascript disabled does not show the splotch. You should keep in mind that the noscript extension also

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amoeba file system

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Hoff
It might actually be a Windows issue rather than a grub issue. Historically Windows has been really picky about being on /dev/hda1. I've heard rumors that newer versions are less picky about it, but then again I recall hearing rumors that you never needed to defrag ntfs, so... I'd probably

Re: [gentoo-amd64] X locks up

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Hoff
I had a similar problem for a while due to a bad video card. It was an nvidia, and I was able to fix it by switching to the nv (open source) driver, but that meant I had no 3d acceleration. I don't know if there's something similar you could try with a Matrox, you may just have to replace the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] X locks up

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 6. April 2007, Michael George wrote: I have been having trouble with my system. For some reason, I've only noticed it recently, but nothing has been updated on the system. try removing the card and put it in its slot again try a different PSU check your board for 'strange' caps.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Amoeba file system

2007-04-30 Thread andrew
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Hoff wrote: It might actually be a Windows issue rather than a grub issue. Historically Windows has been really picky about being on /dev/hda1. I've heard rumors that newer versions are less picky about it, but then again I recall hearing