Re: fonts messed up

[Mark Willson <mark@hydrus.org.uk>]

> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:41:41 +0200
> From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>
> To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: fonts messed up
>
> Hi
>
> after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely 
> messed up.
>
> I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing, and also gnome 
> is barely usable (most text disappear from menus and terminal in general)...
>
> any clue please?

Lorenzo,

I had a similar problem following a recent testing upgrade.  Only the
first word of a string of text would be displayed - the rest was
blank. I tracked the problem down to the Xorg nv driver.  If I used
the Noaccel option, the font display was fine (but far too slow).  The
vesa driver was also ok, but I am now using the binary driver from
nvidia, which does not exhibit the problem either.

Try the vesa driver and see if the problem persists...

-mark