I am looking after four linux boxes running debian (testing). One of the boxes exhibits a strange behavior when running a browser. The browsers on this box do not render pages correctly. This is a very strange problem that has me baffled. If you start skipstone it barely renders anything showing only bits of the page. If you drag the scrollbar down to the bottom and back up the page is revealed. If you move the cursor onto the page things start dissappearing again as the pointer passes. If you start dillo (another browser) instead, a similar thing happens. The text of the initial splash screen is invisible but appears after you drag the scrollbar down and back! Has anyone got any idea what could cause this? Doing a ps -ef on this machine and another that was behaving normally revealed one less process started by skipstone.
If you start AbiWord it appears to be working correctly. This box has the video "card" built in to the motherboard and has a SiS5597 Chipset. The xserver is XFree86 4.1.0 It was necessary to give the option sw_cursor in the devices section of the config file to get a normal cursor. Before that the cursor was a square about 2cm x 2cm. Has anyone here seen this behavior before? regards, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
