Description of problem: If I go to the "Fonts" panel in gnome-appearance-properties and click on the "Monochrome" radio button, font rendering goes totally wacky, as though a black marker has been used to overwrite lines of text at random. (I'll attach a screen shot of gnome-appearence-properties itself for you to marvel at). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gtk2-2.14.4-3.fc10.i386 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: blacked out text Expected results: monochrome text without the annoying color fringes. Additional info: No doubt this could be a problem with the fonts themselves or the video driver of something else, but I start with gtk as the best guess. I'm using older nvidia driver in case that is relevant: kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686-96.43.09-1.fc10.7.i686
Created attachment 327149 [details] gnome-apperence-properties screen shot
I tried this on a different machine with different video driver, and the blacked out text didn't happen, if anything the result was almost the opposite with text going all thin and spidery as if a one pixel wide pen was used to draw the glyphs. I also tried picking different fonts in firefox on the original machine, and I can dramatically reduce the color fringes with other fonts even without setting the monochrome option, so that's what I've done for now.
This definitely has something to do with the video driver (though I have no idea if it is strictly a bug in the driver or merely some strange interaction). I changed the driver from the nvidia-96xx version to the nvidia-173xx version, and the blacked out text when picking monochrome did not happen, just the same spidery text as the other machine.
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