From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P3rMl-0001yk-3N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:22:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3271DE090E; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1212DE0917 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C933A1B41E0 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:21:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.31 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.31 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.289, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6JAckWycChQx for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6531B4063 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3rLU-0005cB-5p for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:21:20 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:21:18 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:21:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: text in xterm Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 0df4746c-9d0e-455c-ad3a-18006c104697 X-Archives-Hash: ab481229041ad670968fa55accfd7006 On 2010-10-07, Adam Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:57 AM, James wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I have an interesting problem -- not sure what's causing it. >> >> Using xfce4 + compiz -- nothing too fancy. When I open an xterm and >> start typing, I start getting 'artifacts' (specifically green lines >> between the various letters I'm trying) in my xterm. > > What video hardware and driver are you using? I used to see (different) rendering artifacts when using the ATI fglrx "blob" driver and aterm -- but not other drivers nor other programs. I switched to the radeon driver, and haven't had any issues since. Actually, the last time I tried the fglrx driver, I think the problem had gone away. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... I want to perform at cranial activities with gmail.com Tuesday Weld!!