On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 06:50:31PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > "Also sprach Mike Hommey:" > > > That's what bug-buddy and other programs are for. > > > > Without further feedback, I'll assume this got better and close this bug. > > Please feel free to reopen if that is not the case. > > Sorry about that. Actually, I think what happened was that I switched > to using opera. I must have meant to do some debugging, but I don't see > evidence! > > I've tested again, right now, and it seems OK now. A very cursory test. > I've checked "show blank page" is set, and I closed with Alt-Q while I > had news.bbc.co.uk open, and at next relaunch it came up with a blank > page OK.. > > > ii iceweasel 3.5.19-3 Web browser based on Firefox > > Firefox itself also has the bug cured. > > ii firefox 3.6.17+build3+ safe and easy web browser from Mozilla > > > But iceweasel is not rendering well .. most of the fonts are missing in > the menus, same as in my kde installation (I largely switched to xfce > for lighter weight windowing managers and gizmos and it has no such > problem, so I don't care), and the lower half of images and indeed > columns and pages is white until I do some mouse-overing or scrolling. > The word "preferences" was not visible in the edit menu .. it was black > down there. I just guessed and clicked and it turned out to be > right. > > Firefox itself is rendering fine, it seems. > > I'm on debian unstable, up to date to within a few days.
Then you should be using iceweasel 5 ;) > It could be that it's an X problem. I am on an IBM TP x40 and holding > the X server at an older version, since newer intel drivers seem to give > me just a blank screen. > > ii xserver-xorg-v 2:2.2.1-1ubunt X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx > display d > > (ubuntu's video driver is the most easily available most recent package > that runs my display fine). Your rendering corruption problem does indeed sound like a driver problem. But that's not really related to this bug, so if you still have the problem on an up-to-date system, please feel free to file a new bug. Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
