I just experienced the same problem with Xubuntu 10.04 LTS. Happend while using firefox, did a reboot, all back to normal. dmesg did not show anything suspicious as far as i can tell.
After all it seems to be a problem with some build-in graphic cards. See here: http://netgator.blogspot.com/2010/10/ubuntu-1004-graphics-fonts- crashed.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589504 Title: words on the screen slowly become unreadable garble -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
