Bug 446957 - [nv] Fonts are blurred and unreadable, "monochrome" setting
Summary: [nv] Fonts are blurred and unreadable, "monochrome" setting
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nv
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 447066 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-16 19:03 UTC by Mark Hiles
Modified: 2018-04-11 11:25 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-05-03 14:58:59 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Screenshot of problem (35.71 KB, image/png)
2008-05-16 19:03 UTC, Mark Hiles
no flags Details
simple standalone test-case (5.89 KB, text/plain)
2008-06-03 12:37 UTC, Caolan McNamara
no flags Details
and a little pic of how that looks on a nv driver (2.03 KB, image/png)
2008-06-03 12:38 UTC, Caolan McNamara
no flags Details

Description Mark Hiles 2008-05-16 19:03:50 UTC
Description of problem:
-----------------------
Fonts are blurred and unreadable when using specific applications. 

I first encountered the problem when attempting to use applications through
Crossover Office 6.2. I assumed it was due to new components in Fedora 9 and was
going to wait until the next release of Crossover.

But after trying different font settings, I also found the problem in other
applications.


Steps to Reproduce:
-------------------
1. Use 'Appearance Preferences' in Gnome and select the 'Fonts' tab.
2. Select 'Monochrome'.
3. Open OpenOffice.org Writer.

I've attached an image to this report.

Comment 1 Mark Hiles 2008-05-16 19:03:50 UTC
Created attachment 305725 [details]
Screenshot of problem

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-05-16 21:07:24 UTC
To take some more ordinary application (OOo does some thing their own way) --
does it happen with gedit as well?

Comment 3 Mark Hiles 2008-05-17 06:45:41 UTC
The problem only appears to affect OpenOffice.org and applications running
through my installation of Crossover Office. 

Incidentally, the problem does not seem to occur in the version of wine in the
Fedora 9 repositories. 

Perhaps this is a bug that only now affects OpenOffice.org and has been solved
in recent versions of wine?

Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2008-05-17 10:00:30 UTC
And what version of OOo is that exactly, rpm -q openoffice.org-core
sounds a bit like bug 443735

Please give the output of "locale", the font listed as "Application Font" under
gnome preferences and the output of "fc-match thatfont", e.g. "fc-match Sans",
and your video driver e.g. grep "drivers" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Comment 5 Mark Hiles 2008-05-17 16:25:26 UTC
I had a look at bug 443735. That bug seems to refer to specific fonts and how
they are displayed in the font selector. It occurs when font smoothing/hinting
is turned on. My bug affects all fonts in the application when font
smoothing/hinting is turned off. It also says that the bug was corrected when
they installed a newer version of OOo. But the version that I'm running is even
newer!

My application font is Sans. Here is the output of the various commands you
asked for:

[mark@localhost ~]$ rpm -q openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-core-2.4.0-12.8.fc9.i386

[mark@localhost ~]$ locale
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=

[mark@localhost ~]$ fc-match Sans
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

[mark@localhost ~]$ grep "drivers" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so


Comment 6 Caolan McNamara 2008-05-18 19:12:34 UTC
*** Bug 447066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Caolan McNamara 2008-05-18 19:22:27 UTC
I see this weird-ass thing with the "monochrome" setting for fonts on a F-9 box
with a nvidia and the "nv" driver at least. It goes away if I change the driver
to "vesa" fwiw

Comment 8 Sudheer Satyanarayana 2008-05-19 05:43:29 UTC
Thinking this problem was specific to OpenOffice.Org I filed this bug report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447066

Comment 9 Caolan McNamara 2008-05-21 12:14:59 UTC
And it also goes away if Option "NoAccel" is used in /etc/X11/xorg.conf with nv,
and I *dont* see this problem on the laptop with a i915 driver

Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2008-05-21 13:40:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> And it also goes away if Option "NoAccel" is used in /etc/X11/xorg.conf with nv,
> and I *dont* see this problem on the laptop with a i915 driver

Do you mean that component xorg-x11-drv-nv is more appropriate for this bug?

Comment 11 Caolan McNamara 2008-05-21 13:53:31 UTC
Well, its the only driver where I can reproduce it. Definitely not xorg-fonts
anyway.

Comment 12 Matěj Cepl 2008-05-29 13:43:36 UTC
OK, let's make ajax happy.

Comment 13 Caolan McNamara 2008-06-03 12:37:35 UTC
Created attachment 308222 [details]
simple standalone test-case

Attached is a simple cairo test-case that reproduces it for me

Comment 14 Caolan McNamara 2008-06-03 12:38:12 UTC
Created attachment 308223 [details]
and a little pic of how that looks on a nv driver

Comment 15 Caolan McNamara 2008-06-03 12:40:22 UTC
add behdad just in case the cairo guys are interested

Comment 16 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-06-03 15:58:21 UTC
Kind of a known driver bug IIRC.  mclasen should know better.

Comment 17 Matěj Cepl 2008-06-04 13:00:18 UTC
Looks like it may be reproducable nvidia driver as well -- bug 449867 looks similar.

Comment 18 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 00:54:25 UTC
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Comment 19 Adam Jackson 2009-07-09 15:01:21 UTC
Moving to rawhide to hide from the autocloser.

Comment 20 Adam Jackson 2009-07-14 21:56:28 UTC
Ben, give the testcase in comment #14 a shot when you get a chance.  ISTR fixing something similar in XAA back in the day, would be nice to know if it's gone for good now.

Comment 21 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 17:11:51 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages (at least F12Beta, but even better if the very latest versions).

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 22 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 08:06:10 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 23 Matěj Cepl 2010-02-26 12:23:11 UTC
Could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[Note please, that this is machine generated comment for large amount of bugs; due to some technical issues, it is possible we've missed some of the responses -- it is happens, please, just a make a comment about that; that we will see. Thank you]

Comment 24 Matěj Cepl 2010-05-03 14:58:59 UTC
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.


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