Already have the nvidia driver installed and its been working fine for about a year. I don't want to drive you guys nuts anymore, so let's put this one to bed. Maybe I'll reinstall at a later date. Thanks for your prompt attention. Oh, and the compositor was not enabled.
Wait. Did you reinstall ...

PS firefox is working fine, so not all browsers are affected. There was no compositor settings in system>preferences.monitor
Oops, sorry. I meant System/Preferences/Windows.

And since you have an nvidia, you could try the proprietary drivers: https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_Install_the ...

Right, so this is nothing to do with Chromium, or even browsers (you mentioned something about DVDs). Either you have done something unintentionally to mess up your system, or you may have hardware problems. Does the machine have just Salix, or other OS's too?

In any case, one way to test and ...

fizzy-logic[~]$ sudo lspci
Password:
00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00 ...

OK...followed the script, chromium compiled and installed.
THEN... when clicking the chromium link to start; it does what i described earlier....looks like a session logout and takes me to a login screen. ?????

cc '-DANGLE_DX11' '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' '-DDISABLE_NACL' '-DCHROMIUM_BUILD' '-DUSE_DEFAULT_RENDER_THEME=1' '-DUSE_LIBJPEG_TURBO=1' '-DUSE_NSS=1' '-DUSE_X11=1' '-DENABLE_ONE_CLICK_SIGNIN' '-DGTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES=1' '-DUSE_XI2_MT=2' '-DENABLE_REMOTING=1' '-DENABLE_WEBRTC=1' '-DUSE ...

The upgrade was a package upgrade for Mate 14.1. This was available as an upgrade last week.
The error messages were long and do you want the entire message log from the failed sourcery install attempt ?

hello to all,
after a recent upgrade, to 14.1 mate, i began to experience some strange bugs. Firstly having previously installed chromium from sourcery and using the browsec extension with it for a VPN option. After the upgrade, when I again used the browser, when clinking a link from a websearch ...

Hey everybody,
I was trying to move a 3.3gb file to trash to delete it and got the following in a popup : The trash has reached its maximum size!
Cleanup the trash manually.
There is nothing in the trash though !!
any clues appreciated.

What's anyone using to play midi files ?