Re: X11 displays fonts badly / crashes in iBook
On Mit, 2013-11-27 at 13:02 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my X crashes when certain programs are run, it started happening some
> weeks ago after I updated.
>
> I noticed the following behaviour
> 1) X11 comes up and looks fine.
> 2) Windowmaker shows fonts with artefacts in the menus, window titles, etc
> 3) all "classic" X11 apps (xterm, xeyes, oclock, xcalc) run, are fast,
> have no problems
> 4) as soon as I start iceweasel, I get a crash. If I start self-compiled
> GNUstep apps, I get a crash.
>
> By crash, I mean that the whole X server comes down!
>
> It might have to do with a certain library used by all these apps? It is
> already strange that windowmaker shows problems.
>
> All applications crashing use "cairo". It could be a pattern.
>
> Any help/suggestion?
It's a mach64 driver bug, fixed upstream by
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mach64/commit/?id=2c83b465b336a012f2d2716940bf483358388000
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