Some web pages garbled in Mint 9

[tadpole1954]

As I wander through the internet, some of the pages I come across are garbled. The pages are made up of mostly green vertical lines made up of short horizontal lines of different colors. If I refresh the page it may or may not clear up. I can go back a page then try the garbled page again and it will be ok. This never happened with Helena. Can anyone give some insight into what may be going on here?

[garda]

It can be caused by a bug in your web browser (Firefox?) or its add-ons, graphics driver, Xorg, Compiz and even your monitor and graphic card connectors.

I had similar problem way back in Mint 6 for a very short while, but it then went away all by itself. So I never even had a chance to troubleshoot it.

Let's narrow down the list of possibilities by starting with a clean profile. Enter firefox -ProfileManager in terminal, create a new profile, then use the newly created profile to browse the web. If the problem still occurs or you're already using a clean profile, try disabling Compiz.

And, post the output of inxi -F and inxi -G.

[tadpole1954]

Thank you garda for helping me. I did as you suggested and it seems to have helped. In ten minutes of browsing, I have not had the garbled screen. However, once or twice I noticed that as a page would load the screen would flash to that garbled looking mess for an instant and then load the page correctly. We'll see how things go. Also, here is the output for the other things you asked for. Again, thanks.


Inxi -F

System: Host ron-desktop Kernel 2.6.32-21-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 9 Isadora

CPU: Single core Intel Celeron (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse3 nx lm) bmips 6400.07 clocked at 3200.036 MHz

Graphics: Card ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] X.Org 1.7.6 Res: 1280x1024@60.0hz

GLX Renderer Mesa DRI R300 (RS400 5A61) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL DRI2 GLX Version 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes

Audio: Card ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel

Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21

Network: Card Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port dc00

Disks: HDD Total Size: 1400.3GB (20.9% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3320820AS 320.1GB

2: /dev/sdb HDS728080PLAT20 80.0GB 3: USB /dev/sdc My Book 1000.2GB

Partition: ID:/ size: 9.2G used: 3.1G (35%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 282G used: 56G (21%) fs: ext4

ID:swap-1 size: 2.50GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A

Info: Processes 154 Uptime 6 min Memory 244.9/938.1MB Client Shell inxi 1.3



inxi -G

Graphics: Card ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] X.Org 1.7.6 Res: 1280x1024@60.0hz

GLX Renderer Mesa DRI R300 (RS400 5A61) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL DRI2 GLX Version 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1

[garda]

Unfortunately, I don't have Radeon graphics here, so I can't be of much help. But, I came across this page:
Fixing the Firefox 3 Rendering Bug: No more garbled pages and black rectangles!

The poster also has Radeon graphics.

Only the first (top) solution is applicable on Mint. And don't forget to make a backup copy of xorg.conf prior to modifying it.