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Am 19.02.2014 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> Yes, it can. But not in the obvious way. |
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> Video cards and GPUs are complex devices implementing numerous |
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> features. It is possible that your GPU/video card hardware is broken |
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> wrt one or a few of these features and Mozilla apps are the only ones |
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> you use that make use of these features. |
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> It's a bit of a perfect storm situation and frankly, software |
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> drivers are more likely to provoke it than broken hardware. I would |
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> keep the possibility in the back of my head to be checked way down |
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> the line of possibilities though. |
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> Meanwhile, if your hardware vendor provides a hardware diagnostics |
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> tool you could run it for fun and see what it says. Those tests are |
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> fairly rapid so you don't lose much by giving it a spin. |
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>> I could boot from a live cd to cross check ... will try that. |
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> or you could do that ^^^ instead :-) |
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I might do that, thanks. An ubuntu-live-cd showed no problems. Although |
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for sure it was a different set of software ... other kernel, |
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nvidia-drivers, gnome .... |
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We'll see ... |
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