* Collin Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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
