well, it's odd to me, anyway, but i'm hoping someone else will think it's entirely normal, and tell me just what to do. i've installed the Xfbdev server from the current Debian "testing" release. the hardware is an embedded MIPS little-endian device, though it's a complete enough system to run "real" debian -- not a stripped version of some sort. i've captured three samples of the problem. the first two are from the "roadmap" application, the third is the "minitime" clock running under matchbox's mbdock app. the fourth is of rxvt, and shows that not all text is affected -- just the title bar. you'll also note that in most cases, not every character is affected. http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/about.jpg http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/menus.jpg http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/minitime.jpg http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/rxvtprob.jpg can someone suggest what this system might be missing, or, if it looks like a bug, where it might live, and how to work around it? i'm not much of an X11 guy, so thanks very much in advance! (which also means i'm not sure what extra information i should be providing about my system to help folks try to answer this.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 62.2 degrees) _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86