Bug#452268: all fonts are unreadable

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reassign 452268 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.2.0-1
forcemerge 439210 452268
kthxbye

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 15:19:45 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:

> I use unstable and in some recent upgrade (I think yesterday, or the day
> before that), all fonts became unreadable. When I start xterm in
> .xsession, the font is readable, but whenever I start gnome-session, or
> kde, or xfce, or kate, or openoffice or gnome-terminal from the xterm, it's
> completely unusable, because I cannot read anything - there are black
> rectangles instead of the letters in all fonts. 
> 
> So I did
> 
> $ sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-core
> 
> changed sources.list from unstable to testing
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install xorg
> 
> and everything started to work again. So the bug is clearly in xorg
> somewhere. Any ideas?
> 
Yes, see #439210.  Adding Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" to the device
section in xorg.conf as a workaround should work.

Cheers,
Julien