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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:54:25
Message-Id: 20131031135414.GK19591@server
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] video display problem by Bruce Hill
1 On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
2 > Last night my laptop began having two problems.
3 >
4 > First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no
5 > output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about
6 > 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the
7 > pointer for another 2s or so. Pasting into urvxt seems instantaneous, although
8 > last night I did have some issues with a tab or urxvt where I had ssh'ed into
9 > a server running irssi in screen -- the backspace key seemed to be stuck, but
10 > that stopped after I did a ^A^D and then "screen -dx 17169.pts-3.server".
11 >
12 > Second, there is an image from Workspace 1 showing up on top of the app
13 > running in Workspace 2. The first screenshot I took to show this had the
14 > xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter app appearing there, also. I've used it many
15 > times and never saw this behavior. I tried another screenshot to move it off
16 > the app (which, btw, is Teamviewer), to show that it was still in the desktop
17 > area, and it left these <whatever you call it's> in the second screenshot.
18 > Actually, in the second screenshot you can't see anything that was dragged off
19 > of the Teamviewer (open app) area, just whatever is on it.
20 >
21 > Yesterday this laptop had four updates:
22 > dev-libs/gmp-5.1.2
23 > media-video/ffmpeg-1.0.7
24 > net-firewall/iptables-1.4.20
25 > app-admin/logrotate-3.8.6
26 >
27 > All of them are stable amd64, and there were no USE flag changes to them or to
28 > make.conf.
29 >
30 > It seems ffmpeg is the only one of those that could have caused it, so I
31 > thought to downgrade and see. However, there doesn't seem to be any downgrade
32 > path for ffmpeg:
33 >
34 > mingdao@baruch ~ $ eshowkw media-video/ffmpeg
35 > Keywords for media-video/ffmpeg:
36 > | | u |
37 > | a a p s | n |
38 > | l m h i m m p s p | u s | r
39 > | p d a p a 6 i p c 3 a x | s l | e
40 > | h 6 r p 6 8 p p 6 9 s r 8 | e o | p
41 > | a 4 m a 4 k s c 4 0 h c 6 | d t | o
42 > ---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
43 > 0.10.9 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0.10 | gentoo
44 > ---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
45 > [I]1.0.7 | + + + + + o ~ + + o o + + | o 0 | gentoo
46 > 1.0.8 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o | gentoo
47 > 1.2.3 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | # | gentoo
48 > 1.2.4 | o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ ~ o o o ~ | o | gentoo
49 > ---------+---------------------------+--------------+-------
50 > [M]2.0.2 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | o 0/52.55.55 | gentoo
51 > [M]9999 | o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o | gentoo
52
53 News ... I stopped Teamviewer and the bad behavior stopped. I restarted it and
54 all seems well, atm.
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