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On 19/02/2014 18:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 19.02.2014 16:57, schrieb Stroller: |
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>> On Wed, 19 February 2014, at 1:57 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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>>> ... |
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>>> btw: my thinkpads don't show this behavior. Same gnome, kernel, |
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>>> thunderbird, but intel-based graphics. So it smells like nvidia ... |
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>> What have you done to rule out hardware? |
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> nothing. |
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> I think hardware would not make only specific apps/windows fail, right? |
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> At least it doesn't sound very likely to me ... |
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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 features. |
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It is possible that your GPU/video card hardware is broken wrt one or a |
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few of these features and Mozilla apps are the only ones you use that |
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make use of these features. |
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It's a bit of a perfect storm situation and frankly, software drivers |
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are more likely to provoke it than broken hardware. I would keep the |
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possibility in the back of my head to be checked way down the line of |
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possibilities though. |
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Meanwhile, if your hardware vendor provides a hardware diagnostics tool |
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you could run it for fun and see what it says. Those tests are fairly |
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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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