On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 13:33:50 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Since the xf86-video-intel update that enabled SNA by default, I've > noticed that some areas of some web pages (mostly flat > backgrounds)... so did you follow the instruction given during the intel upgrade by pacman: ------------ This driver now uses SNA as the default acceleration method. You can still fall back to UXA if you run into trouble. To do so, save a file with the following content as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf : Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" EndSection ------------ i did that, and the artefacts are gone. -- phani.