[plug] Help! My browser is spewing all over my screen.

Sat Nov 8 18:55:44 WST 2003

>From: Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] Help! My browser is spewing all over my screen.
>Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:00:11 +0800
>
>>This pattern looks a little like the pattern that is seen when X just 
>>starts up but is a different colour and is not as fine. This patern covers 
>>a large part of the browser and can cover other parts of the screen. It 
>>also subsequently turns up in any other browser windows open at the time.
>
>I wouldn't be surprised if you were running into a bug with the X server, 
>video chipset, or damaged video hardware. I've seen issues like this with 
>all of those as causes. What's your video chipset, XFree86 version, distro, 
>etc? Output of `lspci` would be handy, as would the X server log, `dmesg`, 
>and `uname -a`.
>

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge 
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 
03)
00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
00:0c.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 03)

uname -a:
Linux johnlinux 2.4.20-20.9 #1 Sat Sep 6 23:11:56 WST 2003 i686 i686 i386 
GNU/Linux

XFree86 -version
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Custom Build: 4.3.0-2)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-8 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 17 July 2003
Build Host: johnlinux

        Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-20.9 (root at johnlinux) (gcc version 3.2.2 
20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Sat Sep 6 23:11:56 WST 2003

dmesg:(some bits skipped)
Linux version 2.4.20-20.9 (root at johnlinux) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red 
Hat
Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Sat Sep 6 23:11:56 WST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffec000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffec000 - 000000000ffef000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffef000 - 000000000ffff000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65516
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61420 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro 
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 root=LABEL=/1
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 551.256 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1101.00 BogoMIPS
Memory: 252908k/262064k available (1358k kernel code, 6724k reserved, 1004k 
data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf08c0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0d.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'PnP Sound Chip'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
.
.
.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0d.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
.
.
.
PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0d.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:20:18:2B:AA:68.
PCI: Enabling device 00:0d.0 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:09.0

I also remember seeing this problem with my old computer and it has show up 
on other video cards on this computer.  And the place on the net where this 
problem seems to crop up the most is the slashdot website.

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