On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:33:09PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > I have a thinkpad 600x, I'm running the 4.0 phase2v17 .debs from samosa, > and I have a wierd font problem: > > Fonts are drawn correctly _except_ when they're being edited. Any line > that is being edited is almost illegible; it looks as if parts of the > letters overlap each other, or mask each other, like somoeone's made a > collage by cutting out little pieces of paper and pasting them back > together carelessly. > > E.g., in an xterm running bash, the lines above the bottom are fine, but > editing the bottom line results in a jumbled mess. Once I hit enter, and > it scrolls up a line, that line is fine, and the new command line becomes > a wreck as soon as I start typing. [snip] I don't think this has anything to do with your font setup; I think possibly the glyph-rendering piece of the trident XAA code is busted. I'll resync with CVS again for v19; I think Alan Hourihane has some more fixes from the ALS hothouse to commit. If that still doesn't work, time to roll up a bug report. In the meantime, you can try Option "NoAccel" in the "Driver" section of your XF86Config-4 to see if that fixes it. If so, my theory is correct. However, depending on what you're doing, this may make X raster ops uncomfortably slow. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us branden@debian.org | suffer Christianity. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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