[101104] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Font Corruption with 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Lawson)
Tue Nov 24 16:51:03 1998
From: elawson@lr.net (Ed Lawson)
To: "James Michael Keller" <jmkeller@radix.net>,
"redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:54:03 -0500
Reply-To: "Ed Lawson" <elawson@lr.net>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:35:42 -0500, James Michael Keller wrote:
>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??
Interesting. I have encountered the same problem with a S3 Virge card and 5.2.
Ed Lawson
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