[arch-general] Intel SNA artifacts in Firefox

Chris Sakalis chrissakalis at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 08:37:17 EDT 2013


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the xf86-video-intel update that enabled SNA by default, I've noticed
> that some areas of some web pages (mostly flat backgrounds) in Firefox suffer
> from heavy graphical corruption, as if those areas are being used as rendering
> buffers elsewhere: bits of web pages from other tabs, etc...  It goes away
> when I scroll the page.  It happens regularly, every couple of minutes or
> more.
>
> This is on a Dell Latitude E5520 (Sandybridge i5) with KDE.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
>
> Paul

Hello,

chromium (v28) on Awesome seems to have the same problem. It isn't
really bad so I just ignore it.

--Chris Sakalis


More information about the arch-general mailing list