>> Historically, even X11R6 on Ultrix gets horribly confused by the 8-bit
>> stride on these displays and mangles bitmap data and SHAPE (oval or
>> round buttons) horribly: the round edges are stretched to 8x the size
>> they should be and you get black-on-black or white-on-white
>> rendering:)
>> 
>> Is that what you're seeing?

>Sounds like it.  Huge edges and incorrect black on black and white on white
>renderings.  
>
>I'm going to check the PR entropy mentioned, and see what help it might
>offer later today....

I think that patch really only affects glass-tty mode and screensaving.
I dont' think thats where your problem lies.

Can you run an app with round-edged buttons? If they end up stretched
horizontally, but not vertically -- so that the "button" ends up a
half-ellipse! -- then you've got an Xserver bug.  Does that sound like
what you're seeing??