Bug#666695: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Bad text rendering

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

reassign 666695 xorg-server
forcemerge 666468 666695
thanks

On 2012-04-01 03:40 +0200, Osmo Salomaa wrote:

> After recent updates in unstable I get bad text rendering at times in
> some applications. Those updates didn't include any nouveau or x
> packages, but I don't know where else to file this bug.

It's in the X server, triggered by the libcairo upgrade to 1.12.

> I have seen this bad text rendering in all kinds of applications, but it
> appears most often in iceweasel, especially on web pages like google
> reader or google groups that have funky ajax updates. Usually the
> rendering will get fixed if I do something that I assume causes a
> repaint, like putting the mouse pointer over the text, moving windows
> around or scrolling out of sight and back again.

I downgraded libcairo* packages to 1.10.2-7 to work around that.

Cheers,
       Sven