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   Rich Walsh to All   
   Re: [New] Firefox/Seamonkey/Thunderbird    
   07 Dec 10 00:45:39   
   
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   From: "Rich Walsh"    
      
   On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:06:04 UTC, tholen@antispam.ham wrote:   
      
   > "Rich Walsh"  writes:   
   >    
   > > Users of the SNAP and GenGradd video drivers running their displays in   
   > > full-color mode (i.e. 16m colors) should see a noticeable improvement   
   > > in video performance thanks to the implementation of DIVE.  Sadly, the   
   > > Panorama driver can not be supported if its "Shadow Buffer" is enabled.   
   > > See the 'Notes' section below for details on how to disable or tune   
   > > DIVE support.   
   >    
   > I decided to disable DIVE support because of screen corruption   
   > underneath the mouse pointer, with some degree of persistence   
   > where mouse clicks occur.  An example of the former would be   
   > with selecting a bookmark.  Moving the mouse down the list of   
   > bookmarks, the item underneath the mouse pointer would be   
   > highlighted, but an approximately square area directly underneath   
   > the mouse pointer would not use the highlight color scheme.   
   > Where mouse clicks occur, I'd see an approximately square area   
   > of the screen with the contents of some other place on the screen   
   > duplicated.  Disabling DIVE support got rid of the problem.   
   >    
   > SNAP build 420 on a Matrox G450 running dual-head on 1600x1200   
   > displays with 16 million colors.   
      
   As noted in the announcement:   
      
   > To eliminate mouse-pointer corruption (required for SNAP in VBE mode):   
   > - add "SET MOZ_ACCELERATED=1" to config.sys.   
      
   For brevity's sake, I omitted "or in the script you use to start the app".   
   Since I use Run with an environment file (the 'E' option), I put it in   
   there.   
      
      
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