Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:18:58 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox3 from ports? Message-ID: <e7db6d980808282118s61ce8790h2afaa26839c4f090@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <g97dqb$4a7$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <g96b4u$13eu$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <E1KYivd-000MBF-Q5@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <g97dqb$4a7$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote: > Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: > >> > That is an X11 problem, not a Firefox bug, and workarounds/solutions >> > have been discussed at length. >> >> Oh! That I didn't know, as I didnt find anything with google, and it >> hasnt appeared on any mailing lists I am on. Do you have a link ? > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13795 > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15098 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 > > In short: > * If you use XAA acceleration, set Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" > "true". This should be safe. > * Alternatively, switch from XAA to EXA, if the latter is supported > and proves to work for your graphics card. > > I have an "ATI Radeon X300SE" radeon(4) card here and _for that > specific hardware_ I highly recommend switching to EXA. Thank you. Although it might have saved an iteration of mailing list ping pong if you'd mentioned this above. I too, hit the same problems and gave up on ff3 for the same reason. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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