Re: font corruption problems

[Haukur Hreinsson <hawk celine here>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:19:02PM -0400, Scott Shepherd wrote:
> I have a recurring problem in Gnome where suddenly all the type is 
> garbled. Meaning all type in all windows, not just the current app; 
> once it happens I have no choice but to log out of Gnome. When I log 
> in again everything is back to normal.

Gnome can't really cause a problem like this. It's got to be the
screen card or the X server. Do you have an ATI Rage128 Pro? I had
font corruption problems like you describe on that card. It was
possible to "fix" the problem by disabling acceleration in the X
server. To try that, edit your XF86Config file (it's probably in
/etc/X11/) and add the line.

    Option      "noaccel"
    
somewhere between the line 

    Section "Device"

and the next 

    EndSection 

line. Try that no matter what card you have. I bet it'll
get rid of the font corruption. Of course, running without
acceleration is no fun so you'll want to find a more recent, fixed 
version of the X server, presuming one exists.