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Re: Fonts not rendering at all



On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Schrey <debian-user@schreyben.de> wrote:
>> Julio Merino wrote:
>>
>>> ... Debian testing ... fonts are not rendered at all in X.org ...
>>
>> Not sure if related, but I have a similar problem when using
>> NoMachine's NX. Downgrading libcairo2 and libcairo-gobject2
>> from 1.12.2-2 to version 1.10.2-2 fixed it for me.
>> (XFCE4 desktop)
>
> No, it's not related.  Note that I said that even xterm fails when
> using the non-standard fixed font, and xterm is _not_ linked to cairo.
>  That reduces the components that may be at fault quite a bit,
> although I haven't been able to figure out yet which one it is.

Tracked this down to the nouveau driver.  Removing it altogether, to
fallback on fbdev, lets fonts work.  Filed bug 699214.

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv


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