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Re: Font Corruption with 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Michael Keller)
Tue Nov 24 17:06:58 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:09:55 -0500
From: James Michael Keller <jmkeller@radix.net>
To: Ed Lawson <elawson@lr.net>
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Ed Lawson wrote:
>
> 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
I also noticed while 5.2 will happly install the other fonts besides
the stock X11 ones - it dosn't bother to include them in the
XF86Config's list of fontpaths .... So that's one hickup.
I could deal if it just screwed up that one VT, but it's messing up the
system font somehow. Such that all VTs are affected ...
It's got to a bug in a video buffer.
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