Intel xorg driver bug
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 16:51 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le dimanche 27 avril 2008 à 18:01 +0400, Peter Lemenkov a écrit :
> I can't fill bugzilla ticket because I just don't know exactly to what
> component this issue must be assigned - xorg-x11, some particular
> driver, some middleware layer as pango/gtk/qt/etc, maybe this is bug
> in freetype or somethere - I don't know.
BTW could you specify what xorg driver you use please? Someone posted a
mail on the xorg lists recently complaining the intel driver broke font
rendering
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034940.html
I updated my laptop a few days ago (F9/rawhide) and now I'm getting
corrupted fonts. It has an Intel 830M using the "intel" driver. It
starts out okay but grows worse every few minutes or so. It seems to
happen a few characters at a time. It's not just limited to fonts,
bitmaps seem to be affected too. So some kind of bug in the pixmap
caching? Flipping to a text console and back to X fixes it, but only
temporarily. Here's a screenshot after letting it get particularly bad:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjaseg/2447596526/
... While I'm at it, OpenGL no longer works in F9. It used to work
beautifully, which was with the "i810" driver mind you, but now OpenGL
apps just segfault on startup. On the other hand, 2D works beautifully
(other than this new corruption bug). Previously (F8) the "intel" driver
didn't work at all with this hardware.
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