Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-28 Thread pk
If anyone else encounters this, I've found a solution to my problems: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Catalyst_10.6.2F10.7_:_black.2Fgrey.2Fwhite_boxes.2Fartifacts_in_firefox.2Fthunderbird http://phoronix.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-24323.html Apparently it's the new 2D

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-27 Thread pk
On 2010-07-26 17:07, Alex Schuster wrote: Good luck. I have tried the radeon driver from time to time, but never had any real success with it. Well, it is working now on one machine, but I need TV-Out, and I have temporarily given up on finding out what's wrong there, and stick to old

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-26 Thread pk
(seems like this message got lost somehow...) Hi! Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window, or parts thereof are not redrawn,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-26 Thread Jake Moe
On 07/26/10 12:58, pk wrote: (seems like this message got lost somehow...) Hi! Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-26 Thread pk
On 2010-07-27 01:58, Jake Moe wrote: I had a similar issue the other day with Thunderbird (I've been trying Chromium lately, so I can't comment on Firefox). I ended up changing drivers from fglrx to radeon, and the issue went away. I also was seeing a slow redraw of xterm windows when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:58 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window, or parts thereof

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: Ok, thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for the open source drivers to mature so that I can rely on them for my needs (incl. gaming). Perhaps it's time to check them out... But, again, since I've been running the ati-drivers-10.6 for a couple of weeks without problems (that