[PLUG] xterm font losing pixels

[Ken Stephens]

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