Bug#821763: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: LibreOffice Preferences UI font corruption on AMD A6-1450 APU/Radeon HD 8250

[Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>]

On 24.04.2016 12:43, J Mo wrote:
> 
> How I am I supposed to use EXA mode to disable glamor?

That's not what I meant. I'm interested in whether the problem occurs
with the nVidia GPU as well using the modesetting driver and glamor.


> I just spent the last hour trying to do this unsuccessfully. Xorg
> -configure always fails with "Number of created screens does not match
> the number of detected devices", which seems to be a known issue.
> Manually creating the file causes Xorg to fail. All other attempts at
> modifying the config results in Xorg failing to start.

All you should need in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is something like:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Device0"
	Driver "modesetting"
EndSection


However, it occurred to me that glamor might not work on a GTX 970
unless you're using very recent upstream snapshots of Mesa and the kernel.


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