Created attachment 800649 [details] screen shot of Settings dialog Description of problem: Letters on the display are missing, Firefox icon displays as "F r fox". The icons are sometimes invisible. The icon buttons are there but are invisible unless I pass the mouse cursor over them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora-19-1-DVD How reproducible: The issue manifests on every screen in the GUI. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up. 2. Click on any icon. 3. Actual results: Text is illegible. See attached screen shot. Expected results: Text should display as normal. Additional info: Bug appears to be similar to ticket #745202. Additional reports can be found at https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/32041/fedora-19-has-faulty-desktop-display/ output from lspci follows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 01:09.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) output from uname follows: 3.11.1-200.fc19.i686.PAE Hope this helps. Email me if you have further questions. Dell Optiplex GX260 2.0 GiB RAM Intel® Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz 32-bit Intel® 845G Version 3.8.4 24.1 GB
I just wanted to report this myself for Fedora 20, then I found this bug here. It doesn’t seem to depend on the graphics hardware, I see this in qemu with qxl/spice and also with qemu and vnc.
Created attachment 804974 [details] letters-missing-qemu-vnc-emacs.png Screen shot from Fedora 20 Alpha running in qemu, showing the same problem. Especially interesting in that screen shot is that I see the problem even in the Emacs *buffer* there, although Emacs does not even use GTK+ for rendering in the buffer. There are missing letters in the menu and title bar of Emacs as well, but that could still be GTK+/Gnome related. But in the Emacs *buffer*‽ That is really surprising!
Created attachment 804976 [details] letters-missing-firefox-wikipedia.png Another screenshot from Fedora 20 in qemu using vnc. Many characters are missing in everywhere, also in the regular text of the Wikipedia page shown in firefox.
Created attachment 804978 [details] letters-missing-emacs.png Yet another screenshot from Fedora 20 Alpha showing an Emacs buffer where almost all of the glyphs are missing. This is some Python source code with syntax highlighting. Black text is gone completely, some text in other colors like red for strings or blue for some keywords remains.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974198 (missing letters on various anaconda screens with spice graphics) looks very similar. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=761390 bug#974198 is supposed to be fixed though, I wonder whether this is really fixed because what I see in F20 Alpha looks so similar.
Mike: did you say you saw this on bare intel hw too?
Yes, I see this from time to time on my "real" machine with Intel hardware as well. *Very* hard to reproduce though. If I restart everything on my Intel hardware machine the problem is gone and it may take weeks until I run into that problem again. Therefore I didn’t report this yet because it was so irreproducible on my Intel hardware, only very occasionally it “happens” and I could never reproduce it on purpose. On Fedora 20 in qemu, it is rather easy for me to reproduce though. I still can not give an exact procedure how to reproduce it, but starting a gnome session, opening a few windows of various applications, opening Firefox with lots of tabs, starting Emacs with a few buffers using many glyphs, ... doing this I can usually reproduce it after a few minutes testing gnome in F20 qemu.
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #5) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974198 > (missing letters on various anaconda screens with spice graphics) > > looks very similar. > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=761390 > > bug#974198 is supposed to be fixed though, I wonder whether this > is really fixed because what I see in F20 Alpha looks so similar. Dave Airlie tells me, the fix for this bug is not in F20 yet. So this could be related. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974198#c19 says: bug#974198, comment#19> [ 14.230] qxl_kms_surface_create: Bad bpp: 1 (1) bug#974198, comment#19> [ 14.231] qxl_kms_surface_create: Bad bpp: 1 (1) bug#974198, comment#19> [ 14.231] qxl_kms_surface_create: Bad bpp: 1 (1) I see the same messages also in F20 in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I still see this in Fedora 20 Beta TC3, see screenshot in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019298#c2 (cinnamon desktop)
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