Re: problems after upgrade to progeny

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Andre Berger wrote:
> 
> I've just upgraded my potato box to progeny. There's a problem with
> xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-12), the mga driver, and geometry. Vertical
> window borders are partly gibberish, like waves, and the text of lines
> between these parts is slanted to the right or left. This may sound
> poetic, but makes things really hard to read. Is this a known bug, am
> I supposed to write a bug report?
> 
> Second, which TrueType-fontserver would you suggest?

  none. X handles tt fonts now.

> Next, what's the best way to switch back to xserver-svga (3.3.6-x)
> if I find no fix for 4.x?

  not sure, you might try to just install it, or, if you did not
uninstall/remove/purge it, you might want to change where the X (it is a
link), or maybe the /etc/X11/Xservers? I am not sure, browse through the
config files and you'll find out how to set up default X. For test
purposes you can also directly run XSVGA (or whatever is the name of the
server, I do not have debian system accessbile right now), just to see
if it (still) works,,,

  they use different config files, X 4.x prefers XF86Config-4, X 3.x
uses XF86Config by default, so they should be able to coexists easily
(then again, AFAIK you can force them to use other config files so it's
not a big deal anyway)

	erik