Firefox waving when moving the page up and down

[David Vincent]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 1:38 PM, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Yesterday I reinstalled my system and I had a trouble, when I used firefox
>> the page was waving when I moved it up or down. It did the same with the
>> synaptic, package manager and mozilla. I was going to install again (ubuntu
>> 6.10) but it did the same with my dvd install. I installed ubuntu 7.10 and
>> everything is normal. Does everybody know why firefox was waving instead of
>> scrolling? and why that would also do it with the dvd? Before I reinstall
>> (completely wipe the hard drive) firefox was working with Ubuntu 6.10 and
>> that wasn't one of my computer troubles, so I was wondering what caused some
>> of my applications to wave instead of scroll.
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here but what do you mean by
> "waving". You refer to it several times but all I can gather is that
> it's not scrolling up and down but something else...
> 
> Let your descriptive juices flow Meg- paint me a picture.
> 

Sounds like a less-than-optimal video driver to me.  VESA instead of NV/ATI?

-d