X weirdness under 3.1.5

[Robin]

In article <BRAZILE.91May30093302 at soir.bbn.com> brazile at soir.bbn.com (Robert  
Brazile) writes:
> 
> Am I the only one for whom fonts don't work correctly? I have a 6000
> with both an 8-bit color card and a 24-bit color card. When running
> the 3003 X server on the 8-bit card, I could not use any application
> that used fixed-width fonts (such as Courier). They would display each
> character as if the server and the application had different ideas about
> the height of the character, so for "a" I would see all of an "a" and part
> of a "b" (obviously getting the next character in the font). This
> tended to make things unreadable.

The bug is in the load2d driver for the color graphics adapter.  It is fixed
in 2006 and is available from level 2 as an emergency fix.  I have seen this
problem with some code we are using here, and the fix does solve the problem.

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