Description of problem: Font rendering produces strange results. Please see attached screenshot for details. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.1.2-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open oowriter 2. Choose Help->About Openoffice.org 3. Check the word "credits" for example Actual Results: Some characters are garbled. Expected Results: Clear font rendering.
Created attachment 105347 [details] Screenshot of OOo about box with strange rendering outlined
Hmmm... I'm running a rawhide snapshot from the last couple of days and I can't reproduce this. Wild guess: maybe it's locale-dependent? What's the output of "echo $LANG" on your system?
I have latest rawhide snapshot. System LANG=et_EE.UTF-8 For the test I ran oowriter from command line with: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 oowriter With my default locale OOo comes up in estonian, but the problem is still the same. What can I do? Is there any way to see exactly what fonts it is trying to use?
Created attachment 106252 [details] About box with bad fonts
I see the same problem occuring with the latest packages. openoffice.org-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm The corrupted characters appear both in the menu system and the documents themselves. I have added an attachment that shows my "about" box. My default LANG = en_GB.UTF-8 I tried running it as "LANG=en_GB oowriter", "LANG=C" etc, but it seemed to have no effect.
I believe that this may be video driver related. I have had Fedora Core 3 installed on 4 different systems: - Homegrown dual-Pentium III with Matrox G200 (mga driver) - Homegrown VIA EPIA-M with built-in "CastelRock" graphics (via driver) - Homegrown Pentium III with Matrox G450 (mga driver) - IBM ThinkPad T30 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 (radeon driver) Of these, I only see the font corruption on the ThinkPad. I see this up through openoffice.org-1.1.3-6.5.0.fc3 on Fedora Core 3. (The version of this bug should probably be updated.)
As I suspected, I can make the font corruption go away on the ThinkPad by adding Option "Accel" "false" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Not really a usable workaround, but perhaps this is really an X.org problem?
Kevin: can you help direct this issue where it needs to go? It seems to be related to ATI X.org drivers specifically, no other graphics chipsets are affected. OOo makes heavy use of XRender to draw the text which is probably where the issue is coming from. In any case, we'll need some X people to help diagnose.
Dan: There is a known issue with Render acceleration with certain Radeon cards. We will be disabling it by default in the next update. In the meantime, you can disable it by adding the following line to the "Device" section of your xorg.conf file: Option "RenderAccel" "False" This will only disable Render acceleration -- all other acceleration is still enabled and should work fine. When we work the remaining bugs out of the Radeon Render accel code, we will reenable it by default.
Setting "RenderAccel" to "False" does appear to fix the font rendering issues in OpenOffice.org. So all that's needed is the bugzilla # of the Radeon Render problem, and this can be closed as a DUP.
Ok, over to X.org then.
*** Bug 136941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 149907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 143401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Upstream bug URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424
*** Bug 143234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding bug alias "radeon-renderaccel" to make it easier to close bug duplicates.
* Tue Mar 1 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris> 6.8.2-5 - Added xorg-x11-6.8.2-ati-radeon-disable-broken-renderaccel-by-default.patch to disable render acceleration by default in the "radeon" driver, as it is currently broken (#136065,136941,149907,143401,143234)
Please test the rawhide 6.8.2-5. This will be released for FC3 in the future. Bug set to "MODIFIED" state pending testing of new rpms.