Not a TW problem, but...

[David Shaw]

OK, I'm hoping to get some clues as to what may be going wrong with my
system from the fact that opening a TW makes them go wrong faster.

I'm running a fresh (ess than two weeks old) install of Arch Linux with
TW 2.6.5, FF 16.0.2 and TiddlyFox 1.0alpha3.

After running for some time - on the order of four hours - I start
getting corrupted characters displaying in all programs. If I scroll
the screen so that they disappear of the top or bottom and scroll back,
then the correct characters are displayed again. I know this isn't
directly related to TW as it happens whether I am using TW or not.

However, if I open a TW, this corruption happens immediately. I've been
testing this quite extensively over the last week or so and it is
reproducible.

Any ideas at all most gratefully received.

Many thanks,

David Shaw

[Jeremy Ruston]

Does this just happen within Firefox or does it affect other apps?

It sounds like Firefox is getting confused under lengthy or heavy usage of graphics. It may be worth experimenting with turning off some Firefox flags, including hardware acceleration:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forum-response-disable-hardware-acceleration

Cheers

Jeremy

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[David Shaw]

It's other apps too, I'm afraid. However, FF is by far and away the
major one I have running, with several tabs open at all times. I'll try
what you suggest and report back.

Many thanks,

David Shaw

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi David

In that case I'd be inclined to be suspicious of your graphics card or driver. It could conceivably be a hardware problem triggered when the graphics card gets too hot after prolonged or intense use.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[David Shaw]

Well, turning off the hardware acceleration in FF seems to have cured the problem, but I suspect that you're right and it's my graphics card on the way out.  This is a fairly old machine, after all.  Ah well!  Time to start saving the pennies  :-(

Many thanks for your help,

David Shaw