James, I had fonts which actually were looking like bar codes... I got the following advice and it worked: Add in the section Device of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, the following: Option "NoAccel" It seems to be related to the xserver not properly managing the accelerated fonts You may want to give it a try
Serge ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:07 PM Subject: font troubles in sid Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in galeon where displaying as rectangles. I managed to fix this through trial and error in the galeon preferences, and life went on, though I did notice that the same rectangles were being used to display the xmms playlist. I decided to ignore this as it wasn't seriously affecting my daily work. However, I just fired up the gimp, and noticed the same font problem with all the menus and dialog boxes, rendering the gimp pretty much unusable. Googling around, I found the "TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO" and followed the instructions there to set my XF86Config to use xfs. (adding "unix/:7100" to the FontPath and restarting xfs). Still no menus in gimp. I'm running sid, and a modified XF86_Mach64 server that I've been lugging around with me due to a bug in the default server that draws a line down the middle of screen on my Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, (if any of that is relevant, I don't know). Any help or pointers to more docs would be greatly appreciated, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
