Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Weird behavior: > > Sometimes one of the characters in my gnome-terminal instances > (I typically run about 20) loses a few black pixels - on every > instance of that character on every terminal instance. > > > Restarting X fixes it - or else causes a different character > to lose pixels. > > Restarting X means a lot of cleanup - closing apps and windows. > I've run "memtest86" and "stress" to see if this old laptop is > the problem. Different fonts do the same thing, when they are > scaled down to font size 8 or 9. > > Not sure where to look for a fix. Where does gnome-terminal > store its font tables, or render them? > > Keith > Keith,
Wonder if you can test the video memory. memtest86 tests the main memory. Does it have a test for your video card memory? A check on the Google will give you various software to test that RAM. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
