xorg-server Re: rawhide report: 20060405 changes

[Ville Herva]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:16:17PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
> 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.

Just to give you an idea what it looks like:

http://iki.fi/v/tmp/vf/kate_dialog_vanished_fonts.png
and after I hover mouse over the buttons:
http://iki.fi/v/tmp/vf/kate_dialog.png

http://iki.fi/v/tmp/vf/firefox_vanished_fonts.png
and after I selct text and hover mouse over the menu
http://iki.fi/v/tmp/vf/firefox.png

Anyway, I'll report this to nvidia folks.


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