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To: Michael Gass <mgass@unix.csbsju.edu>
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Subject: Re: Garbled text in xterm
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Hmm.  I've never heard of any symptoms quite like this.
A few stabs in the dark:

 What happened if you used no xorg.conf at all?  Did you get the same
    xterm problem?

 Do you have a locale set?