Bug#452268: all fonts are unreadable

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

On Nov 21, 2007 4:19 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Confirming, that adding the Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" indeed fixes
the problems for the current drivers in unstable. Thanks for the tip.

Ondrej