We don't have a Matrox around here which seems like the only way to recreate it.
We'll try to locate one and then we can find the checkin that caused it.
Mike Kaply
IBM
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:59:32 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralph Cohen) wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:13:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > The page text overwrites itself so the result on-screen is unreadable.
> > > The page renders fine on NS4.61. The effect is as if several pages where
> > > rendered one on top of each other.
> > >
> > > The html is pretty simple. Essentially just paragraphs and lists.
> > >
> > > In case it's a video driver interaction I run a G200 with native matrox
> > > drivers.
> >
> > It could be. I see the problem and I am also running a Matrox G200
> > with the native drivers ver. 2.54. It shows up in both the VACPP and
> > EMX 0.9.3 versions, but it doesn't happen here with NS4.61, Mozilla
> > VACPP 0.9.2, Mozilla EMX 0.9.1 or Opera.
>
> Same results as Ralph. I'm running Matrox G200 with 2.54.130 driver.
>
> My three Netscapes (2.02, 4.04, and 4.61) display the text correctly.
> Mozilla VACPP 0.9.2 and IBM Web Browser display the text correctly.
> Opera (OS/2) displays correctly. Mozilla 0.9.3 (both VACPP and EMX)
> overlay the text from multiple pages onto my screen.
>
> [Netscape 4.61, IBM Web Browser, and Mozilla VACPP 0.9.2 - all treated
> the text background strangely. The top (many scrolls in extent) and
> bottom (many scrolls in extent) of the page were displayed using
> what looked like the browser's 'default' background color; middle
> (many scrolls in extent) of the page was displayed using near-white
> as the background color.] [Note: When I scrolled 0.9.3, the middle
> part of the page (that had the white background in 0.9.2) appeared to
> have the text from previously rendered screens *cleared* before the
> current screen was displayed; whereas screens from the top part and
> from the bottom part appeared to be displayed *without* clearing the
> previous screen from the text. (It's amusing to scroll 0.9.3 -- the
> display gets blacker and blacker as more black text gets added but
> existing black text does not get erased.) ]
>
> mikus
