Re: problem with display breaking up

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 01 July 2015 09:54:00 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> A client is reporting the following problem:
>
> "The break up of the picture always occurs after I have just logged in
> and then click the mouse cursor onto an icon such as icedove or
> iceweasel"
>
> "When clicking the mouse on an icon eg.for icedove or iceweasel, the
> picture fragments sometimes."
>
> We have more or less excluded the monitor.  File corruption is not
> unlikely, given that he has been handling a mouse problem by turning the
> computer off at the wall.  The computer eventually failed to boot, but that
> has been fixed with an fsck.  I have fsck'ed every partition on the hard
> drive.
>
> Do I try installing another video card?  But it feels like a software
> problem. So where next?
>
> The mouse problem has been fixed by using a different usb port.
>
> I have googled and got nowhere.
>
> Any ideas where next, please.  Try a "new" video card to eliminate it as a
> possible cause?  And have video card driver problems. :-(
>
> Lisi

More info:
"The picture break up problem only occurs after log-in.Once I have 
successfully got into icedove or iceweasle I have no further problems 
navigating anywhere."

Any ideas?

Lisi