[101054] in RedHat Linux List
Font Corruption with 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Michael Keller)
Tue Nov 24 12:35:01 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:35:42 -0500
From: James Michael Keller <jmkeller@radix.net>
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Well after giving up on having 5.2 actualy manage an update - I went
ahead and did a full install ( save things such as /home and
/var/spool/mail ../news )
All went fine with that after one hicup with libtermcap / linuxconf /
initscripts not installing the first time around due to some
crosslinking inodes on /var - so I had to copy all the files to a spare
partition and reformat that partition before I could get a clean install
)
However, something is going wonky with the XF86_SVGA server installed by
default. Any abnormal exit corrups the system wide font. Such that
when returning to the command line the font is now unreadable.
Sometimes it's just scrambled. Such that the character's are in the
wrong sequence, othertimes I get the same with small background '!''s or
'.''s in rows. My guess is something has craped out the video memory??
Othertimes a normal exit will still screw up, but with a slightly
differnt font corruption - it's almost like it's changed to an asian
font of some kind.
The card is a 4meg generic s3 board.
I would attach my XF86Config - but it's stock as generated from the X
setup program with redhat.
Any ideas? Mabey switch to the dedicated accel s3 server? SVGA prints
out that it's detected the s3 and changing to s3 acceleration ... guess
they added s3 to the stock SVGA server since 5.0 ( which is what I tried
to update from. )
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