Bug#496272: xserver-xorg: fonts and menu icons are blank in pristine lenny install

[Mark Hedges <hedges@scriptdolphin.org>]

Actually it happened whether I used the intel driver or the
generic driver, framebuffer or not.

But I just re-installed and now it is fine.  Weird.

Mark

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Brice Goglin wrote:

> Mark Hedges wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg
> > Version: 1:7.3+15
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> >
> > I just installed lenny with the netinst installer on a Thinkpad X61.
> >
> > All the fonts are blank.  gdm or kdm.  I log into gnome and the fonts
> > and menus are all blank.  I can click on the menu, and the entries
> > highlight, but they are all blank.
> >
> > It doesn't matter if I use the default xorg.conf file generated by dpkg
> > or if I use the one that used to work with this system before my hard
> > drive died.
> >
>
> This is likely a duplicate of #451791 and friends.
>
> Does adding one of the following lines in the Device section help?
>     Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
>     Option "EXANoComposite"
>
> Brice
>
>