Bug#451893: unreadable fonts and other rendering errors on intel

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

On Jan 8, 2008 8:22 AM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a new snapshop of the intel driver in experimental
> (2:2.2.0+git20080107-1) as well as a new xserver-xorg-core in unstable,
> could you guys test them and tell me whether they fix your rendering
> errors? The i855 boards should be fixed, but we still don't know much
> about other boards.

Are we talking about the screwed up fonts (I have black boxes instead of fonts)?

I have G965, and the driver from experimental doesn't fix the problem for me.

Here is a fix, that I use:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Generic Video Card"
    #Driver     "vesa"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

Important is the AccelMethod option. This works both with the sid and
the experimental driver. If
I comment out the AccelMethod option, it works neither in sid nor in
experimental.

Ondrej