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Flickering Spotlight List

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Mar 28, 2007
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Does anyone else's Spotlight list flicker when typing into
the search field?

I didn't notice it before, but just applied the Leopard gfx
update and the EFI update and now I see it.

What happens is that the whole list disappears and then
reappears quickly, and this looks like flickering. It doesn't
flicker when I stop typing.

Also: I never applied the HD2600XT firmware update, and
do not wish to if I can avoid it.

Thanks.
 
Mine is doing it too - flickers with parts of the desktop background in the drop down box.

I've applied all the latest patches.
 
Chunk72 said:
Mine is doing it too - flickers with parts of the desktop background in the drop down box.

I've applied all the latest patches.
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Hi Chunk. When you say all, you include the HD2600XT firmware
update? I think you probably do, but I just want to doublecheck,
thanks.

It's a fairly trivial issue, I think, as long as it doesn't indicate some
deeper problem. I'm just curious about it.
 
My bad, I thought I had applied the 2600 fw update but it is still showing as available - I declined this time.

In another twist, spotlight has stopped doing the flickering thing since I left the machine powered off overnight.
 
Chunk72 said:
My bad, I thought I had applied the 2600 fw update but it is still showing as available - I declined this time.

In another twist, spotlight has stopped doing the flickering thing since I left the machine powered off overnight.
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Ok, I'll give it some time to right itself. The worst case would
be that the fw update wraps up some necessary tweaks with
some unnecessary ones - i.e., the increased fan speed.
 
I may try grabbing the old drivers off the Leopard
install disk to see if it disappears.

I maybe had my silly head on yesterday applying
these updates. After all, nothing was not working
before. But then I don't want to end up 6 months
from now with a huge list of ignored updates. It
feels great to be up-to-date for some odd reason.
 
Ok, I decided to reinstall without the update. I wanted to slim down
the system a little bit and get rid of unnecessary language support
etc. Only partially successful it seems as there's still a bunch of
Japanese fonts in some menus. Goodness knows how they got in
there.

Anyhow, without the Leopard graphics update the flickering has gone.
Hurrah, hooray and all that! Also, I am sure now that the menus were
flickering before. Now that I have a reference point, that is very clear.

Finally, it's not only this machine that had the flickering. I noticed it on
some other Mac Pros too. And, despite the MP boot ROM update being
supposedly dependent on the graphics update, there are no adverse
effects that I can see if that dependency is not installed.

Frankly, I'm getting to the point where I might never install an update
like this again. If it seems to work, and there are no security issues, I
may just let it pass in future. A flickering menu may seem like a small
issue. In many ways it is inconsequential. But it's like a little flea-sized
bug that's constantly there biting away and distracting you.
 
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