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