Flash leaves ghost image in browsers, evince, possibly others

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 00:22 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: 
> Okay, I had to have photos of the screen effects and I put them up at
> http://zentektales.com/Artifacts.html along with some "narration."
> Screen shots don't show the artifacts, probably because they're not in
> the foreground video buffer (?).
> 
> Sorry about the focus - it's a little tricky in the darkness to show
> the monitors.
> 
> These artifacts are from an NVidia controller (I forget which one)
> with the latest driver (260.x.x I think) from NVidia, not the Ubuntu
> version (which doesn't work for my machine - weird).
> 
> So far, the only way I've found to clear the artifact is to reboot,
> which is not acceptable.  It has to be something about the video
> buffers in the controller.
> 
> Let me know if you have a clue.

Congratulations! That's about the strangest thing I've ever seen!

Can you boot and run a live cd session of your current version level of
Ubuntu? Then fire up firefox. If it's not there, there is a ghost of
some application in your present install that is persistent. I'm glad I
don't have it. :) Ric

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