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From: Harald Meyer on 11 Apr 2010 14:53
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> What fixes it is having
> Epiphany running at the same time..or as far as I can tell, if I load
> epiphany, then firefox runs OK even after I shut down epiphany.

Try another program that uses lots of video RAM. Image Viewer, Quake..

> Now I am a tad clueless here. Does this mean that epihpany is maybe
> picking up a library

Looks like video RAM problem to me. You have chipset graphics, do you?
From: J G Miller on 11 Apr 2010 15:23
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:41:51 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I suspect its somewhere deep in the graphics toolkit area..

This may shed some light (or I could be barking up the wrong tree) --

Run xvinfo and save the output to a file when the redraw does not work
properly.

Run xvino and save the output to a different file when the redraw does
work properly.

Then do a diff between the two file and see if any of the settings
are different.
From: Mark Hobley on 11 Apr 2010 17:33
The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

> I have been trying to chase down a bug that happens in firefox. Firefox
> is compioled up from source on debian stable lenny platform.

I am using the testing version, and I have been seeing some bugs with the
rendering on various applications (firefox is one, rxvt is another). I am not
sure whether these problems that I am seeing are the same as what you are
seeing on lenny though, or whether they are newly introduced.

I know that there are some rendering engine problems, so maybe some work is
being done to try and fix these. I think some problems are fixed, and other
problems had developed, and I think maybe these may be fixed now too (I pull
some packages from unstable).

Mark.

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Mark Hobley
Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/

From: The Natural Philosopher on 11 Apr 2010 18:37
Harald Meyer wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> What fixes it is having
>> Epiphany running at the same time..or as far as I can tell, if I load
>> epiphany, then firefox runs OK even after I shut down epiphany.
>
> Try another program that uses lots of video RAM. Image Viewer, Quake..
>
>> Now I am a tad clueless here. Does this mean that epihpany is maybe
>> picking up a library
>
> Looks like video RAM problem to me. You have chipset graphics, do you?

I dont *think* it is.

Because its absolutely associated with firefox and javascript.,

Nothing else cause the problems.

And it doesn't seem to matter whether I run ephinany or note, provided I
have run it ONCE.


I'll give memtest a go, tho.
From: Harald Meyer on 11 Apr 2010 18:50
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I'll give memtest a go, tho.

I didn't mean defective RAM, I meant problems with allocation of video RAM
from the main memory. A driver problem.
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