X on ThinkPad X220 with chrome or firefox goes blank

Artyom Mirgorodskiy artyom.mirgorodsky at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 09:44:57 UTC 2012


Did you try to rebuild xorg-server with latest clang patch? (this patch commited 2-3 days ago)

On Monday 17 December 2012 08:40:37 Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated my notebook over the last couple of days and have now
> problems starting chrome and firefox. The effect is that the screen
> turns blury leaving hard to recognose characters on a white screen
> after starting any of these applications.
> 
> I can use Ctrl-Alt-F2 to come back to the terminal. Of course, this is
> now a flight in the dark. After entering Ctrl-C and restart X, I get a
> new X running until I start firefox or chrome again.
> 
> Applications like Claws Mail, Arora or xterm work without problems.
> 
> I do not see anything different in the log file of X.
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what could cause this?
> 
> I will recompile and reinstall all my ports now to see what will come
> out there.
> 
> Erich
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