root window completely messed up

[Net Llama!]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> 
>>Would you mind posting a screenshot? It may give us some ideas.
> 
> 
>   Here you are, Biju. Two of 'em, in fact. This display problem has never
> shown up before -- in 5 years -- so I'm really at a loss what to do.

This looks like a videodriver problem.  I've seen this happen before 
when the videodriver wasn't right for the hardware.  Also in some very 
limited circumstances, it means that your videocard is dying.

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