From bb@suse.com Mon Mar 30 22:14:09 1998
From: bb@suse.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] X-Win & Netscape pblms
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:14:09 +0200
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Tom Kormanik wrote:
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> Bodo Bauer wrote:
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> > TEX wrote:
> > >
> > > I have the same problem.  I have not shut down though.  No matter how
> > > garbled the text, I just type startx and enter and away it goes,  but It
> > > is real ugly.    Can someone help?
> >
> > Try to use 'runx' instead of 'startx'? This uses svgalib to restore the
> > registers of the graphic card. It's in the package 'svgalib'.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >         BB
> >
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>   Bodo,
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> Thanks for answering our messages regarding "trashed fonts".  Your remedy,
> run "runx" instead of "startx" rectifies the trashed fonts and for this, I =
am
> great-
> ful and thank you.
> I'm sure that you are waiting for the other shoe to drop, or a "but" and he=
re
> it is:
> What I would really like to have is a solution to the problem rather than a
> "Band
> Aid" repair, or at least a better understanding of  how the trashed font
> problem
> comes about.
> Again I am greatful for the advice, just trying to understand the dynamics
> (ie mechanism).

Hi,

I'm sorry but I'm afraid I can't give you a really deep explanation of
this behavior. AFAIK the X servers sometimes have problems to restore all
of the registers used for text mode with specail graphic cards. But I don't
know why runx works for those cards and the 'plain' Xservers doesn't.

There were a lot more cards who had these problems some time ago, and runx
was always a good tip to solve this. These days only very few people seem to
have this kind of problems.

To get more info on this, we need to have a X specialist, you can try
to contact the XFree86 team for example...

Ciao,
        BB

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