On Tue 18 Mar 2003 08:19, Jason Komar posted as excerpted below: > I ran into a strange problem this morning. If anyone else is running a > AIW Radeon 8500DV, maybe they could try to reproduce this one. > > I opened up Mozilla and tried to go to www.alteclansing.com. As soon as > the page started to load, X crapped out and just shut down. My system > was unresponsive, showing only a black screen so I had to do a hard > reboot. On rebooting I tried it two more times with the same result each > time. I tried browsing to other sites with no problems. I didn't want to > file this one as a bug yet because I have no further information. I am > hoping someone else can reproduce this behavior.
Have you tried another browser, yet? I don't have a Radeon (I run three monitors on two vid cards, an NVidia AGP for two, and an old S3 Virge PCI), and run Konqueror as my browser of choice, with plugins, scripting, cookies, and images, all turned off by default, which means I don't usually get surprises like that. However, first thing I do if I get something unusual, is check page source, and then try it in other browsers. Checking page source on the above page indicates that it's a flash animation. My guess is that your Flash plugin uses some sort of acceleration that isn't stable on that particular video card/driver combination. However, as I mentioned above, it'd probably we wise to ensure plugins are disabled by default for security reasons in any case, which would at least allow you to load the site and check page source, Mozilla or no Mozilla. The site uses scripting as well. Here on Konqueror, w/o either enabled, it gives me a blank page. W/ just plugins, the same. W/ both or just scripting, it apparently decides I don't have Flash and goes to the non-flash main page, which would be my normally desired behavior anyway. To bad they require scripting, however. They should load a page with a link to the main page, that's replaced by the flash if scripting and flash is available, if they want to do that. I've rejected products when I was searching for product info to buy something, for less. After all, if a mainboard manufacturer, for instance, isn't concerned enough about security to realize that some folks may have scripting and plugins off by default, for security reasons, and code for them, how am I to trust they will take proper precautions with the their mainboards, and how would I easily get updates, if I have to view source and have to reconstruct where I'm supposed to go from there, on page after page, because they've coded them for folks with scripting on only? -- Duncan "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
