wierd text

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 n ...

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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

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Have you tried just becoming root first:
 
su [enter]
(password) [enter]
 
apt-get install xmms [enter]
 
?
 
Have you tried installing it through Synaptic?

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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