[Nel] Font display problem and possible solution

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Today I experienced the font problem reported a few weeks ago.
When launching snowballs, all text letters shows as white rectangles,
approximately the size of the bounding box.

        The configuration was 

        apt-get install from http://loic.dachary.org/debian Debian
        GNU/Linux unstable, XFree-4.1, Mesa-3.4.2, libfreetype6, G400
        32Mb RAM,
        

        I was able to fix it by doing two things at once, which is
never a good idea to precisely diagnose a problem. However it gives us
a few informations about the problem itself and narrows the possibilities.

        I fixed it only by changing lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

        - De-activated the use of the framebuffer

        (**) MGA(0): Option "UseFBDev" "true"

        - Specified the RAM available on the card

        (**) MGA(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kByte

        because auto-detect only saw 

        (--) MGA(0): VideoRAM: 16380 kByte

        
        I'm not sure what fixed the problem, I guess removing UseFBDev
did. I'd be interested to know if people experiencing the same problem
are able to fix it in the same way.

        Food for thought ;-)

        Cheers,

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