On Friday 15 July 2011 10:53:46 William Kenworthy did opine thusly: > 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!
It's a computer. Surely you didn't expect it to actually work? :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
