From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 18:37:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6245216A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:37:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at (lilzmailso02.liwest.at [212.33.55.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3E043FBF for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:37:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from [212.33.58.27] (helo=cm58-27.liwest.at) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AQHSm-0002jc-2b for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:37:32 +0100 From: Daniela To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:32:45 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311300332.45417.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Weird display problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:37:38 -0000 Hi all! There's something strange going on with my system. Sometimes, all of a sudden, there are lots of colored vertical lines on my monitor. When I switch to a terminal at this moment, there's a mix of some funny characters and some of the characters that should normally be there. A few of these are only displayed half, i.e. every other row erased. The system responds to commands as normal, it just looks a bit messy on the screen. The problem doesn't go away until I reboot. I thought it could be faulty hardware, but then I found out that it is reproduceable: It always happens when I visit http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Deutsch/Wissenschaft/Mathematik/Angewandte_Mathematik/ in Mozilla and scroll down the page. I once had this a long time ago with 4.8 (now I have 4.9), but I can't remember the browser I was using and the exact site (it was something in Google directory). How can I solve the problem, or at least find out what causes it? Regards, Daniela