Bug#534766: xserver-xorg-core: font corruption, dri2 no longer working
Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.6.1.901-3
> Severity: important
>
> I have observed two regressions since upgrading to 2:1.6.1.901-3,
> despite having taken care to rebuild xserver-xorg-video-intel against
> current versions of xserver-xorg-dev and x11proto-dri2. (As such, I
> believe this report to be distinct from #534475.)
>
> - As a traditionalist, I make heavy use of the "fixed" font, which
> started showing up as unreadable horizontal stripes rather than
> proper characters. I'm not sure if other fonts were also affected,
> as I quickly reverted to -2 and the corresponding (unrebuilt)
> -video-intel. (I have tried to ensure that the data dump below
> corresponds to my brief run of -3, though.)
>
> - While comparing logs of -2 vs. -3 (diff included below), with
> everything else held the same, I observed that only -2 was able to
> make use of DRI2. That's not such a big deal to me, as pretty much
> the only GL apps I run are xscreensaver hacks ;-), but seems worth
> noting as well.
>
This looks strange to me. Are you sure you rebuilt properly? Can you try
my rebuild of the intel driver available at
http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/Xserver1.6-ABIbreak/intel/ ?
Brice
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