On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:49:36 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:45:35 +0200 Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:01:38PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > > > > > I suppose that only the horizontal lines are broken (the vertical > > > > are OK)? > > > > > > Bingo! > > > You guessed! > > > > Then it seems this bug must be reassigned to some of the x server > > video drivers. What is the type of your videocard? > > I took a look at the different boxes I administer: I experience this > problem on two machines with Intel integrated graphics (driver > xserver-xorg-video-intel/2:2.9.1-1), but *not* on an old laptop with an > S3 ProSavage KN133 integrated graphics chip (driver > xserver-xorg-video-savage/1:2.3.0-1). > > It seems that this issue is intel-graphics-specific. [...] > > In order to work with 9x16 and 9x14 fonts the video card does a > > magic: for some of the symbols (the pseudographic symbols) it uses > > the 8-th bit in each line as 9-th bit. This magic is due to the fact > > that even the most modern cards are emulating the old VGA hardware > > that was developed 20 years ago when only the 8-bit technologies were > > cheap. Somehow X leaves the videocard in a mode when it doesn't use > > the 8-th bit as 9-th and leaves the 9-th bit empty. > > Hence, it seems that this bug should be fixed in > xserver-xorg-video-intel. If this is the case, I think the bug report > should be reassigned to package xserver-xorg-video-intel, version > 2:2.9.1-1 . Do you want me to reassign the bug report to xserver-xorg-video-intel/2:2.9.1-1 ? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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