Re: nv driver and screen corruption

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 01:08:10PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> Hi, I'm using NetBSD 5.1_RC3, Xorg is using nv driver with NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 
> 440 graphics card.
> 
> For quite some time now I have been seeing screen corruption, this usually 
> happens when Firefox is running. I'm not sure if Firefox causes it, or buggy 
> nv driver.
> 
> What I mean by screen corruption is this - bands of vertical stripy lines 
> that 
> corrupt text and graphics on the screen. This happens quite randomly when for 
> example, scrolling text in Firefox or switching virtual desktops.
> 
> Has anyone seen this and maybe knows what is going on?

I've seen this too, with ati adapters. Only the firefox window is corrupted,
and switching tabs usually fixes it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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