ons 2014-02-19 klockan 21:14 +0100 skrev Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 19.02.2014 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > Yes, it can. But not in the obvious way. > > > > Video cards and GPUs are complex devices implementing numerous > > features. It is possible that your GPU/video card hardware is broken > > wrt one or a few of these features and Mozilla apps are the only ones > > you use that make use of these features. > > > > It's a bit of a perfect storm situation and frankly, software > > drivers are more likely to provoke it than broken hardware. I would > > keep the possibility in the back of my head to be checked way down > > the line of possibilities though. > > > > Meanwhile, if your hardware vendor provides a hardware diagnostics > > tool you could run it for fun and see what it says. Those tests are > > fairly rapid so you don't lose much by giving it a spin. > > > > > >> > >> I could boot from a live cd to cross check ... will try that. > > > > or you could do that ^^^ instead :-) > > I might do that, thanks. An ubuntu-live-cd showed no problems. Although > for sure it was a different set of software ... other kernel, > nvidia-drivers, gnome .... > > We'll see ... >
I have seen this flickering in gnome-terminal, in nxclient and also in the window title of chromium. I am using gentoo-sources-3.13.3, nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 and chromium-33.0.1750.70. Both in gnome-terminal and in nxclient it looked like some kind of "blink-attribute" was used. ;) BR / P-E
