[Solved]Firefox (both compiled and bin) has problem

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

Hello,

I just got done (if one is considered ever done) with my install.

Firefox is causing little squares. I cannot use scrot to do a screenshot as they vanish when I click off the window.

No strange hardware. System76 Gazelle Professional with an i7-4810 with onboard graphics.

No X configuration, letting Xorg handle as everything is working fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

Indeed, it looks somewhat strange. Are you getting the same with a clean firefox profile?
For getting another profile you have to close all instances of firefox and start its profilemanager

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

Suppose you are on www-client/firefox. To check if your problem is specific to Gentoo or upstream you could try www-client/firefox-bin

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

Jean-Paul · Guru Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 307

On my firefox I see the same little squares.
This happends sometimes if I scroll fast using the mouse-wheel of my Logitech-M500.

Btw.
the cpu I use is an i7-4810 with onboard graphics.

I don't think this is a firefox issue but who knows ...
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frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

I've seen this before, IIRC it was a bug in the intel graphics driver, but fixed ages ago...

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Yeah, chances are it's a driver problem. Intel seems to be the worst for those...

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

Thanks for the replies.

Since this is a driver issue, I am trying to figure out how to upgrade X11 to the newest version. I have mesa upgraded to the newest.

package.accept_keywords:

=media-libs/mesa-10.3.1
=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.58

What do I put to pull in the newest xorg with the newest drivers?

Thanks.

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

I got this problem solved.

I upgraded to testing. I spend most of my time on my computer in a browser and the boxes were a big deal.

So, that is the solution if anyone else has this problem.

Thanks for all the replies.

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

corbintech · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2014 Posts: 16

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21602

So you switched your entire system to testing? That may work, but it is massive overkill. I run a mostly-stable system with Firefox and a few of its supporting packages from testing, and have not seen problems like the one you described.