Re: Font bug?

[Ben McKeegan <Ben.McKeegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Ben McKeegan wrote:

> The symptoms are that certain characters in certain fonts are often
> missing from her screen, particularily 't's, 'i',s and 'r's, but also
> random other letters.  Where the letters are missing there is just a black
> space, with the same background colour as the surrounding text.
....
> 
> The Xserver is XF86_Mach64.  /proc/pci reports the graphics chip as an ATI
> Mach 64 GB (rev 92).  The card is in fact an AGP card.

Oooops!  Contrary to what I said someone had reconfigured the terminal to
use XF86_SVGA instead.  Correcting this to XF86_Mach64 has fixed the
problem so there is nothing to worry about. 

/   Ben McKeegan, I.T. Manager                                         \
\   Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK.                  /