* Mike Werner in "Font corruption under X" dated 2000/07/08 19:36 * wrote: > Hiya folks. Some time back I started having a strange and sporadic > problem with the displayed fonts in X becoming corrupted. Recently > it started happening more often. I've not been able to determine > what causes it, but it happens more easily when Netscape is running. > I don't think I could describe what happens to the fonts, so I won't > try. Instead, I got a screenshot of it. It's at: > http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~mwerner/netscape.jpg Heh, I had that problem too, a while back. > Recently, if I copy a URL using the mouse from an xterm (actually, > it's rxvt that I use) and then paste it into Netscape's URL window > the font corruption happens almost immediately. If it doesn't happen > immediately, scrolling up and down a few times with the Page-Up and > Page-Down keys will trigger it. Mine was never that consistent though. > However, I'm just about positive it's *not* Netscape's fault. I've > had this font corruption happen even if Netscape is not running. > It's happened with FileRunner, mutt (running in an rxvt window), mc > (also in an rxvt window), and even just in rxvt at a prompt. There > may have even been other apps that it's happened with - the 4 listed > are the one's I use the most. > > I've also determined that it happens whether I have Gnome running or > not. And I just tried with a different window manager - I usually am > using Sawfish under Gnome, installed blackbox and tried under that - > with the same results. It would seem that the fault is with X itself > somewhere, but I have no idea where. And since I've no idea where to > look next I'm not sure what to do next. I came to the same conclusion that it had to be something in the X server but what exactly I don't know. > I'm running woody up-to-date as of 5 minutes ago, kernel 2.2.16, PII > 300MHz, 64 megs RAM, Helix Gnome / Sawfish. What video card are you using? I noticed this on a cheap S3 Virge/something (dx i think), upgrading my video card to a Matrox G200 seems to have solved the problem so I suspect it had something to do with the S3V implementation of the SVGA X server, but I'm still only guessing. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL++++$ P+>+++ L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger aclark@ghoti.org for GPG public key http://ghoti.org/
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