Re: Screen relics
On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:48:42
>> From: Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics).
>> Resent-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:48:42 +0000 (UTC)
>> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>
>> On 04/05/12 15:30, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> And, Iceweasel (and it may have happened with the iceape browser; I am
>>> not sure - have not used it for a couple of weeks, now, I think) has a
>>> habit of leaving fragments of dialogue boxes on top of everything else
>>> on the desktop, hiding parts of the screen with the dialogue box
>>> fragments, which only disappear when I kill or crash iceweasel. The only
>>> thing that displays on top of the dialogue box fragments, is when I
>>> invoke the screensaver, which overwrites evrything on the screen (at
>>> least, for the present time)
>>>
>>> I would include a screenshot showing this, but I do not know whether
>>> this mailing list allows attachments.
It's preferable not to attach images. Use a screenscrape site.
>>
>> I've seen that happen before - I don't believe the problem lies with
>> Iceweasel though, more likely a video driver/window manager problem
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>>
>> If you gave us (in a fresh post) information about your video etc
>> someone might be able to help.
>>
>
> lshw shows:
>
> "
> *-pci:0
> description: PCI bridge
> product: Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 1
> bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
> version: 12
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
> configuration: driver=pcieport
> resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096)
> memory:fa000000-fbefffff ioport:ce000000(size=301989888)
> *-display
> description: VGA compatible controller
> product: GT218 [GeForce 310]
> vendor: nVidia Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
> version: a2
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
> configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
> resources: irq:16 memory:fa000000-faffffff
> memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable)
> memory:ce000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:ec00(size=128)
> memory:fbe80000-fbefffff(prefetchable)
> *-multimedia
> description: Audio device
> product: High Definition Audio Controller
> vendor: nVidia Corporation
> physical id: 0.1
> bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
> version: a1
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: bus_master cap_list
> configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
> resources: irq:16 memory:fbe7c000-fbe7ffff
> "
>
> Is that what is needed?
>
> I am running GNOME.
>
> Synaptic shows the GNOME version as 1:2.30+7
>
> The Iceweasel version shows as
>
> "
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120421
> Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)
> "
>
> What other information is needed?
>
<snipped>
Are you using any effects that require 3D?
NOTE: I'm not familiar with GNOME
Kind regards
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