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[Rick Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Kicad-developers,

It's time to do some more PCB layout, so I thought I'd try a late
release of kicad, previously having only used the version packaged with
Fedora ca.  2013 or so. 

I followed the recipe at www.kicad-pcb.org and ran the kicad-install.sh
script.  It ran correctly, only requiring me to link /usr/bin/wxconfig
with /usr/bin/wxconfig-3.0 to complete. 

So I now have Kicad 2015-02-19 BZR 5432 running on my Fedora
Laptop with kernel 3.14.7-100.fc19.x86_64.

When I try to draw lines in either the pcb or library editor the lines
are invisible.  I can draw lines and polygons "in the blind" but they
only become visible when I right click and select "end trace".  Then the
line or polygon becomes visible. 

I also find the grid in the library editor too faint to see and too fine
to be useful.  I'd like a 100mil grid but the menu stops at 50mil.  Any
largish footprint causes the grid to be inhibited at full size. 

Seems to be a fail on the graphics rendering of my laptop.  Is there any
settings to try to improve this situation?  I'm happy to provide any
data that might help. 

In the meantime, is there a recommended "stable" version that I should
downgrade to to get work done? 

Thank you for any help you can provide.

kind regards,
--
Rick