Bug#606939: [squeeze -> 2.6.36 regression] holes in characters rendered on screen in X

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

John Hughes wrote:

> Since installing linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 in order to "fix" bug 590251
> I'm seeing minor "glitches" in font rendering (seen in gnome-terminal and
> iceweasel).
>
> The glitches take the form of holes in random characters.  Once a character
> is displayed with a hole then the same character (same font, same size) will
> always be displayed with the same hole.  For example as I type this bug
> report the top of the uppercase "C" is missing.
>
> I don't know if this is a kernel or X bug.

Sorry for the slow reply.  Can you reproduce this with a 3.x.y kernel?
If so, can you take a screenshot so we can see what the corrupted
glyphs look like?

Thanks,
Jonathan