Crap. I found the problem with spelling. Spelling in game DOES work, it's just that the little red underline doesn't show.
I'm running Xinerama with two monitors and always fire up game in the second window. Turns out the little red squiggly line doesn't show up on that screen. If I drag the window to the other monitor the line shows up. Very odd. Must have happened when a dist-upgrade migrated me to xorg??? $ dpkg -l | grep xfree ii xfree86-common 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Window System infrastructure transitional ii xserver-xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 the XFree86 X server I'm running a: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]