Tom Kormanik wrote:

Bodo Bauer wrote:

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TEX wrote:

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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,

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 here 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 -- Bodo Bauer S.u.S.E., LLC fon +1-510-835 7873 bb@suse.de 458 Santa Clara Avenue fax +1-510-835 7875 <A HREF="http://www.suse.com"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com</A">http://www.suse.com</A</A>> Oakland CA, 94610 USA -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e