On 26 Jul 2000 20:44:36 GMT, Kent Polk wrote:
>
>My Matrox G200 died last monday and I sent a list of 'approved'
>video cards from the XFree86 site. Unfortunately, purchasing ignored
>the list and purchased an ATI XPERT 2000 instead, which appears to
>have the dreaded 'text corruption problem':
>
>ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/fixes/fix-01-r128
>
>The above-mentioned URL shows a patch to XFree86 3.3.6 which
>supposedly fixes the problem. Is this the correct path to follow
>for NetBSD 1.4.2/XFree86 3.3.6?

I added the patch and rebuilt. The text problem was fixed, but when
windows or text are moved on the screen, columns of various-length
horizontal lines 'snow' the screen. Unfortunately, I didn't notice
if this occurred before the patch or not.