I had the same strange look when I used an ATI Rage 128 based graphicsadapter.
When I
switched the hardware acceleration off, the fonts became "normal". In the file
/etc/X11/XF86Config there could be an entry like
# "accel" off
I uncommented this line an X11 works normal.
bye
Sven
"Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> I finally got XF86 from the frozen Debian (3.3.6 I believe) installed
> and actually working right.
>
> When I start it up the graphics all look right, but all the text is
> garbase. My prompt looks like "|||\| ^||||" and such. Definitely
> nothing that looks like text. Even if I try to bring up the "menu"
> >from holding down ctrl-mouse-button in an Xterm.
>
> I've tried with and without the xfs running.
>
> Robert
>
> :wq!
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> FYI:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>
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