i have been having a nightmare this evening. (un)happily chugging along the work stack, my workstation suddenly freezes. upon rebooting, it turns out that X doesn't want to start anymore (due to grsecurity denying /dev/kmem writes). it was running all the time, and i don't recall updating the kernel... so now, 2 hours later, i am finally back in X, but it looks horrible. the fonts are now terribly rasterised, xbuffy has a totally different font than before, gtk apps look disgusting, and i am clueless... before, the fonts were really nice, smooth, and a pleasure to look at. now it looks like a 1980 atari. nothing against 1980 ataris. does anyone have a clue what happened? here is a quick rundown of what i did: i have an nvidia card, so i had to compile a custom driver and all. when X failed to start, and i mysteriously couldn't recompile a kernel, i chose to boot the 2.4.18-bf24 kernel still on there from the installation. in order to make X work, i changed the XF86Config-4 file to use the vesa driver rather than nvidia, and to use 16 rather than 24 bit colour. i also remove the nvidia-glx package. when the new kernel ran again, i undid the above changes. that was all. and now i am confused. please, someone tell me what's up... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Keyserver problems? http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html Get my key here: http://madduck.net/me/gpg/publickey
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