Subject: Re: vertical lines between characters
From: Dominic Knight (dom@overseal.uklinux.net)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 11:32:16 CST
On Friday 02 February 2001 00:48, Sam TH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:01:51PM +0000, Dominic Knight wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 February 2001 21:24, Sam TH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:58:12PM +0000, Dominic Knight wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have recently installed abiword on 3 computers at a school, on two
> > > > of the computers it works fine, on the third, a vertical line appears
> > > > between each character, this disappears if you alter the view in any
> > > > way but returns for the next characters typed. All computers are the
> > > > same and have identical, fresh SuSE 7.0 installations. The vertical
> > > > lines only exist on-screen. The Abiword version is preview release
> > > > 0.7. How do I resolve this problem ?
> > >
> > > If you look in the about dialog, it should tell you the exact version
> > > (0.7.x). If you let us know that, we can probably help you.
> >
> > The about box says "version unnumbered", I can download the latest source
> > and give that a spin tomorrow, odd that it's only on the one box though,
> > as I said, they are identical, each with a fresh O.S. install from a
> > script.
>
> Ok, the "unnumbered" means that Suse compiled them and didn't set a
> version.
>
> If they are all identical, I would have to guess a hardware
> difference. What kind of machines are these?
>
They are HP vectra vl machines. p166, 64mb using s3 trio 64v2/ dx or gx rev 2
graphics cards, 800x600 display area at 24bits depth, using the XF86-3.3.6
SVGA server for the x display run under kde1.
Regards,
Dominic.
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