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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Firefox 3 displays pieces of desktop background
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> Christoph,
>
> Thank yo so much for this suggestion.
>
> I have been annoyed by this odd problem since I started using Firefox3
> and this finally make things work correctly. I think this needs to be in
> a FAQ somewhere until/unless the Xorg driver is fixed.
>
> In any case, I was seeing this with an ATI Radeon X300 M22 graphics
> chipset. I don't seem to see it with my nVidia GeForce 7800 GT based
> system. I don't THINK I see it with my old MGA Matrox G450  , but I
> won't have my eyeballs in front of that system until next month, si I am
> not sure.
>
> Anyone seeing this with any other graphics device that does not use the
> RADEON driver?
>   
For completeness - I too was using the Radeon driver (ATI 9600 Pro).

regards

Mark