xorg-server Re: rawhide report: 20060405 changes

[Ville Herva]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:03:54PM -0400, you [Ivan Gyurdiev] wrote:
> 
> >
> >xorg-x11-server-1.0.99.2-1
> >--------------------------
> >* Tue Apr 04 2006 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com> 1.0.99.2-1
> >- Update to 1.0.99.2 snapshot and go back to using mesa-source package.
> >- Drop xorg-server-1.0.99-composite-visibility.patch.
> >- Drop xorg-server-1.0.1-backtrace.patch.
> >- Drop xorg-server-0.99.3-rgb.txt-dix-config-fix.patch.
> >- Add xorg-server-1.0.99.2-spiffiffity.patch.

Perhaps it's one of these changes, but upgrading to 1.0.99.2-2 broke font
rendering for me. Basically everything works, but about half of the fonts¹
show a peculiar problem: they don't show up, but when I select text with
mouse, they appear. Or when I wave a window over them. Then they vanish
again. It looks like a caching / backing-store problem. At least firefox,
kate, gkrellm and opera show this.

I'm running up-to-date rawhide, 2.6.17-rc1, e17-cvs and nvidia 8756.
Downgrading kernel to 2.5.15-rc7 (last I used succesfully before boot),
nvidia 8178, or running fvwm does not change the behaviour. Disabling
BackingStore, Composite or RenderAccel from xorg.conf doesn't seem to help.

Xorg is slightly more of a hassle to downgrade, I haven't tried that yet.

Any ideas?


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¹ Anti-aliased fonts, but not all of them, at least not in all applications,
  such as rxvt-unicode.