root window completely messed up

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Net Llama! wrote:

> I dont' think its software.  I think your videocard is dying.  Save 
> yourself alot more time, and swap it out.
 
Lonni,

  You may well be correct. But, would a dying video card mess up only the
root window and not the application windows over it? And, would it respond
properly to the xsetroot command? I'm just curious.

Thanks,

Rich 

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