SoulNothing 0 Posted October 21, 2004 all right i switched over to ubuntu because no matter what i did the packages would fix anywho ive never seen this before but yeah the text is like hyrogliphics and i cant see much so how do i fix it heres how it happened i typed sudo -s apt-get install xmms everything changes fonts and the mouse goes dead reboot nothing with the mouse change mouse its fine http://www.angelfire.com/music5/dead-by-day/terminal.jpeg the link to the image but it wont work Share this post Link to post
Dapper Dan 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Have you tried just becoming root first: su [enter] (password) [enter] apt-get install xmms [enter] ? Have you tried installing it through Synaptic? Share this post Link to post
SoulNothing 0 Posted October 21, 2004 i would love to become root but i dont know the password for root it didnt ask me i got xmms installed though even in synaptic it had the problem with the text all right so i logged into kde it worked in konsole no problem xfce same problem the thing is im not big on kde and id like to fix this the issues is everything is in shapes or even squares im going to check language but i dont think thats the issue to put it simply with synaptic i installed things blindly then decided to quit on konsole i fixed everything up thanks for teh response Share this post Link to post
