Re: Reverse XTerm

[Zach Weinberg <exark@gutreflex.com>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 14:21, Zach Weinberg wrote: 
>  
>
> > Yesterday night, i ran apt-get upgrade on my Sarge Powerbook 3400. I did 
> > not reboot and for the rest of the night, everything seemed to be 
> > working fine. But this morning after I'd booted up the machine and 
> > loaded X, i opened up XTerm to find that the font was backwards.each 
> > letter was reversed. Other terminal emulators (aterm, eterm, etc) did 
> > not exhibiit the exact same behavior. When typing in aterm and eterm, 
> > regular text was forwards, but highlighted text was reverse. And any 
> > text based console program run inside one of the terminal emulators 
> > exhibited the exact same symptoms as XTerm.
> >    
>
> Could be an X driver acceleration issue. What does
>
> grep expansion /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>
> say?
>
>
>  
arthas:~# grep expansion /var/log/XFree86.0.log
            CPU to Screen color expansion
            Screen to Screen color expansion
                         27 8x8 color expansion slots
arthas:~#

Doesn't seem to me to be a driver problem... what would I be looking for 
anyway?

Thanks for the help,

Zach Weinberg