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.
> 
> 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?

I was almost sure it wasn't an NVIDIA problem since 8756 -> 8178 downgrade
didn't help, but sure enough "nv" driver seems to work. 

However, with older xorg-server, "nvidia" driver did work.


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