Bug 531431

Summary: Font rendering is broken on Rawhide (radeon chipset)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: D.S. Ljungmark <spider>
Component: 0xFFFFAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: rawhideCC: behdad, dwmw2, fonts-bugs, jglisse, mclasen, xgl-maint
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Description D.S. Ljungmark 2009-10-28 10:07:09 UTC
Created attachment 366409 [details]
Screenshot of the problem

Description of problem:
Fonts "disappear" in a cloud of pixels, mostly it's in certain fatness/fonts and it is reproducible, always the same letters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Rawhide, updated Wed 28, 2009
fontconfig-2.7.3-1.fc12.i686
cairo-1.8.8-3.fc12.i686
pango-1.26.0-1.fc12.i686
package xorg is not installed
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.0-1.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.10.20091006git457646d73.fc12.i686
kernel-2.6.31.5-96.fc12.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start x
2. start emacs
3. shudder at fonts
  
Actual results:
Broken letters in Firefox, Metacity, Emacs, gedit and other applications

Expected results:
Smooth and beautifully hinted fonts

Additional info:

Comment 1 D.S. Ljungmark 2009-10-28 10:07:47 UTC
Created attachment 366410 [details]
xorg log file

Comment 2 D.S. Ljungmark 2009-10-28 10:08:21 UTC
Created attachment 366411 [details]
lspci output

Comment 3 D.S. Ljungmark 2009-10-28 10:55:27 UTC
Fixed with the latest kernel (2.6.31.5-104.fc12) from :


http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=138707

Comment 4 D.S. Ljungmark 2009-10-28 12:56:11 UTC
Scratch the "Fixed" and replace it with "Greatly improved" I still see the same kind of error, but not in as many places. Currently on the B and F in bold text in metacity and a few other places.  Oh, and capital D in the bug reports and this text field.

Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2009-10-28 15:08:04 UTC
Almost certainly a driver bug.

Comment 6 Jérôme Glisse 2009-10-28 20:04:00 UTC
Duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529081

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529081 ***