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Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Posted Jun 27, 2008 13:25 UTC (Fri) by sharkb (guest, #52709)
In reply to: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem) by MisterIO
Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

In case you didn't find the solution yet (or if someone else is looking for it), take a look
at Debian Bug Report #482992
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482992

In short the solution is to add the following line to the "Device" section of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Option          "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"

You need to restart your X, unless you want to experiment with this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4211618


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