Subject: Re: vertical lines between characters
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 11:32:35 CST
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:32:16PM +0000, Dominic Knight wrote:
> 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.
>
Well, it sounds like they are all the same machine, which leaves me
totally at a loss for an explanation. Sorry.
sam th
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