Hi.
I've recently setup my brothers PC to dual-boot with Debian
Linux. Well, actually, I installed it on a hard disk. I've spent the last
couple of nights on the phone talking him through getting GRUB to boot
winders and setting up XFree86.
Anyway, he's having a weird font problem under X. He describes the
text as looking like "bar codes" i.e "vertical lines, constant height,
variable thicknesses".
Tonight I got him to setup xfs-xtt and point XF86Config at
"unix/:7100" for the FontPath. That seemed to fix _some_ fonts. What's
more, he described a dialog box where some text showed OK, but a label
below it (and presumebly using the exact same font) showed as a
"barcode". Plus, some text labels showed as just black boxes.
What could cause these problems? Font server? X server? It's using the
SVGA X server with an S3 Trio64 card.
Has anyone any suggestions that would save me from travelling out to fix
it in person?
thanks,
bye
--
8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
Ian Tester *8)# \7\ LINUX: because geeks will find a way
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
