Messed up fonts

Just curious, anyone else have fonts that look like this screenshot?
http://neotuli.net/img/screenshots/scre … 788837.png
Notice how some of them are blurred, others are just funky. Highlighting them or moving the cursor over stuff can make it appear correctly again. I can't quite correlate it happening with anything in particular, although after a suspend/resume cycle crossed my mind.
Any ideas/anyone seen something like this before?

Nvidia card? If yes, you're not the only one: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=2135024
Effed up VRAM is my guess. I've had some stuff like this and far worse stuff, but I *know* my graphic card is broken, it makes a crazy noise among others, and I'm just waiting for it to die. In your case it might be that the graphic card state is not properly restored after resuming. Or that in general the driver is doing something funky, considering that guy at nvnews is having the same problem.

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''Kits47 [[#answer-701080|said]]''
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