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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:57:29 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
To:        "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and KDE - Fonts are Black Rectangles
Message-ID:  <20000314105729.A10393@student.csd.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <00a401bf8d95$44719080$cf6ec8d0@lexmark.com>; from jim@freeze.org on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:11:20AM -0500
References:  <00a401bf8d95$44719080$cf6ec8d0@lexmark.com>

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:11:20AM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote:
> I have just installed FBSD 3.4 with XFree86 3.3.5.
> I also installed the KDE desktop.
> I have an AOpen PA50V video card which uses the SiS 6326 chip.
> I have defaulted X to SVGA.
> 
> When running 'startx', the KDE desktop comes up fine,
> but, the fonts are not showing. All that shows is a black rectangle where
> the text should be. This is the case for all the fonts in the menus.
> There is one exception to this. The text in the top window and the editable
> text in the File window is readable.
> 
> Also, the mouse turns from a pointer to a rectangle of vertical black/gray
> lines after clicking it the first time. The rectangle is approx 1" sqr.
> I have a standard ps/2 mouse.
> 
> Has someone experienced these problems?
> If so, how do I fix them?
> 

I had similar problems with XFree86 3.3.5 when using a SiS 5596 chip.
Those problems disappeared when I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.6
Now I have a SiS 6326 based card instead and it works fine with 
XFree86 3.3.6

So, to fix those problems I suggest you upgrade to XFree86 3.3.6

(It seems as if XFree86 3.3.5 has some problems with SiS chips. :-)


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Erik Trulsson
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