I have been away on business for a few days, and before I went aptitude
had scheduled an update of my unstable system, but I had not installed all
the new packages. My system was in the state of being re-installed - from
a lenny DVD, which I have then changed by changing my sources.list to take
out the DVD and point only to unstable (sid) packages.

Last night when I returned, the update happened.

Now, when I start up my computer, the screen looks really strange. All
the text is either a black or white rectangle for each letter, and icons,
seem to have a black or white background, and they too seem to be
rectangular in shape.

I thought for a while that my fonts had not been installed, but the more I
think about what has happened is as though all transparency has been lost.

Is anyone else experiencing any thing similar or is it just me?


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Alan
(via webmail - means I am away from my computer)
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk



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On Thursday 08 May 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 08/05/2008, Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> > Now, when I start up my computer, the screen looks really strange.
> > All the text is either a black or white rectangle for each letter,
> > and icons, seem to have a black or white background, and they too
> > seem to be rectangular in shape.
>
> My guess is that it's #451571.
>
> If you manually force XAA as your acceleration method in your
> xorg.conf, does that fix it? XAA used to be the default, but since
> they're trying to move to EXA, that has become the new default.
>


Yes it does - thank you (and to Nicolas George who first suggested that
to me).

Its all working great with that. I also tried "exa" and that didn't
work

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