fonts turning white?

Mike McLean mikem.rtp at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 20:52:10 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Adam Williamson<awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 18:19 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>> I have seen menus (firefox and evolution) and/or fonts turn white or
>> missing on various occasions, no matter what I was doing.  I've seen
>> mention of gtk2 for various reasons, although this may or may not be a
>> part of the problem.  And what I mean by the problem, is the fonts are
>> there and didn't leave, just not black no longer.  They just seemed to
>> fade out, or turn completely white and not be seen, or even be turned
>> white but can see the letters.
>>
>> Anyone else experienced this and/or know what I am experiencing?
>
> If you're using nouveau, yes. If you install the latest
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau and kernel from koji, it should cure that.

I've been seeing random font corruptions, missing letters (I suppose
they could just be white on white), sometimes the odd symbol-ish
character instead of a letter. Intermittent. This is with the intel
driver.




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