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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Display corruption
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:56:11
Message-Id: 1310698426.8284.9.camel@moriah
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Display corruption by Alan McKinnon
1 On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 01:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Friday, 15 July 2011 07:02:43 William Kenworthy did opine thusly:
3 > > Hi, I have just "repurposed" a server to a desktop, added X/gnome
4 > > and all the usual apps. However, the display is missing
5 > > "characters" or parts of them as the png image shows. Video card
6 > > is an inbuilt 82945G/GZ using the o915 driver on a 20" Hitachi CRT
7 > > running 1600x1200.
8 > >
9 > > http://wdk.dyndns.org/Screenshot.png
10 > >
11 > > What setting have I missed? - appears not to be subpixel smoothing.
12 >
13 > I noticed it's only the b and m characters that are rendered wrong.
14 > Does the problem persist if you use a different font? I assume this is
15 > displayed in X and not on a text console.
16 >
17 Yes, its in anything X - the screendump was from evolutions text pane
18 but literally any X text does it.
19
20 But its just come good ... and I dont know why! After spending hours
21 yesterday, and some time this morning on it went into work for a couple
22 of hours, left it running (and nothing restarted/changed after doing the
23 screen dump except the screensaver cut in) and its now good!
24
25 grrrrr!
26
27 BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] Display corruption Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>