X on ThinkPad X220 with chrome or firefox goes blank

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:44:59 +0200
Artyom Mirgorodskiy <artyom.mirgorodsky at gmail.com> wrote:

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

I do not know as I updated the ports tree around this time. Let me do
it again.

Thanks for the hint.

Erich
> 
> 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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