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On Friday 15 July 2011 10:53:46 William Kenworthy did opine thusly: |
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> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 01:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Friday, 15 July 2011 07:02:43 William Kenworthy did opine |
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thusly: |
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> > > Hi, I have just "repurposed" a server to a desktop, added |
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> > > X/gnome and all the usual apps. However, the display is |
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> > > missing "characters" or parts of them as the png image |
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> > > shows. Video card is an inbuilt 82945G/GZ using the o915 |
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> > > driver on a 20" Hitachi CRT running 1600x1200. |
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> > > |
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> > > http://wdk.dyndns.org/Screenshot.png |
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> > > |
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> > > What setting have I missed? - appears not to be subpixel |
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> > > smoothing. |
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> > I noticed it's only the b and m characters that are rendered |
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> > wrong. Does the problem persist if you use a different font? I |
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> > assume this is displayed in X and not on a text console. |
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> Yes, its in anything X - the screendump was from evolutions text |
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> pane but literally any X text does it. |
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> But its just come good ... and I dont know why! After spending |
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> hours yesterday, and some time this morning on it went into work |
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> for a couple of hours, left it running (and nothing |
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> restarted/changed after doing the screen dump except the |
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> screensaver cut in) and its now good! |
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It's a computer. Surely you didn't expect it to actually work? |
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:-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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