Corrupt fonts in X4

[Collin Peters]

Debian upgraded X without my desire to do so but after a few struggles I have it all working.  Only problem so far is that it seems some fonts are corrupt/missing and I have no idea how to find out which ones.  This screenshot ( http://www3.telus.net/cadiolis/fonts_screenie.jpg ) shows the problem in gtop and dselect.  It only happens in dselect when running it from a terminal window in X, not running from a true prompt without X.  I think this may be the cause of X crashing on me in a few apps (staroffice and netscrape) with a signal 11.  The log file is not to helpful in these crashes so I wish to fix the font problem and see if that fixes the crashes.   While I'm writing this I may as well as about performance.  Quake 3 runs at about the same frames per second under X4 but seems to have a 'twitch' in it every few seconds.  Any thoughts on this?  I've read that X requires kernel 2.2.18 pre? or 2.4 to run DRI properly.  Is this true?   Collin