Quote Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul
Hello,

i've OpenSuse 10.2 as a dual boot system with WinXP. I haven't done anything on it in the last 4-6 months.
Yesterday I booted it up and every text bit is unreadable. I can only see rectangles where text should be. The last time I worked on the system I increased the desktop resolution to 1280*1024. Then the fonts where unreadably small. I imported ttf fonts from Windows and had all but a few parts in readable fonts. Somehow the fonts seem to be broken.
How can I change the fonts now?
Even if I find the way to the right control panel in the GUI I wouldn't be able to do anything because I can't read what I do.
Changing to runlevel 1 (that's the shell mode, right?) works and I can use the shell. Alas, I've never edited a file from the shell using vi. And I don't know which file in Gnome determines the used fonts. Switching the font back to default is all I want.
Any ideas?

Disclaimer: This is not my working system. No panic, no urgency. I'm just curious.
Why don't you run an Scandisk and Chkdsk diagnostic to see if those programs fix you the problem?

I'm not sure if its the best idea out there, but I am trying to help.