Hi James, James Robertson <j@mesrobertson.com> (03/04/2012): > Dear Maintainer, > > I am getting garbled fonts mostly noticable in Iceweasel when using the > radeon/ati driver - I tried vesa and it was fine. > > Please see this link as an example of what it looks like: > http://ompldr.org/vZDhxcw > > When I mouse over various areas of the focused application these > "corruptions" change their shape and location, it does not happen when > moving the mouse outside of the application in question. It only > affects fonts or text input boxes (so far anyway). > > After various research and testing such as regenerating the fonts cache, > purging the radeon packages, turning KMS off etc. I added the following > config file that I found on the Arch Wiki. > > > cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf > Section "Device" > Identifier "Radeon" > Driver "radeon" > Option "EXAPixmaps" "off" > EndSection > > This has resolved the issue and I no longer get this text corruption. thanks for your investigation. It's apparently the following upstream bug (server bug in EXA): https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266 If you want to test the patch in comment#47, see comment#48: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266#c48 Mraw, KiBi.
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