Smileys don't animate
I run my own (non-commercial) web site which includes a forum. There are
smileys which can be used in the posts which are supposed to animate
except that they don't animate on my desktop machine.
My desktop runs Debian Testing/Squeeze, up to date, and uses a 2.6.34
kernel plus the nouveau graphics driver. I used to use the nv graphics
driver which exhibited the same problem.
I understand that these animated smileys are multi-layered GIFs and it
seems that I only see one layer which in some cases is not enough to even
identify the smiley image.
If I boot the same machine from an oldish Knoppix DVD (kernel 2.6.19) the
smileys animate as expected. That DVD appears to use the nv driver.
I can view the same page on my Laptop and the smilies animate on that.
The really strange part is that I also have a local copy of the web site
running under Apache on my desktop and the smileys do animate on that.
Any ideas?
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Barry Samuels
http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk
The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
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