I'm seeing spots! Specifically, I'm seeing spots within the drawing canvas in Firefox. I'm attaching an image to show exactly what I'm talking about. Although not reproducible at will, I have seen this behavior in both mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-bin, and on two different machines (one has an ATI Radeon display adapater, the other is using an nVidia TNT2). I am using an ~x86 version of Firefox, but I was seeing the same thing with 1.0.x (binary release only, never tried the 1.0.x source release). I have not seen this in either source or binary releases of Thunderbird, and I have not yet tried to install Firefox outside of Portage. Most of the time, anything that involves redrawing the client area will make the spots go away (ie minimizing/maximizing, window on top of Firefox, etc), as will scrolling. The current install: www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2 Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-vs2.0.1-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-vs2.0.1-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.davidandgoliathtees.com/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr chroot crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode exif expat faad fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq idn imagemagick imap imlib innodb java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww live mad maildir mhash mmx mng mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn musicbrainz mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline recode samba screen sdl sensord softmmu spell sse ssl svg svga sysfs tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales v4l v4l2 visualization vorbis xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 81597 [details] Spots on the Firefox drawing canvas
Seems upstream, or a problem with your system. I've never seen it, try bugs.mozilla.org if you're convinced it's firefox.
