Adam Hardy wrote:
I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic.I answered several of the questions posed by the installation processses of some of the packages but I must have answered one of them very wrongly.Now my system-, firefox- and thunderbird text refuses to appear until I drag the mouse across it.I am not sure how I managed to trash the system and I don't see anything immediate to restore it.This is the same in KDE, Gnome and Enlightenment. Can someone tell me where to start?
Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? If so, I had this problem recently I think. My solution is here:
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20061122.213602.6eeb2583.en.html cheers matthew