Bug 905030 - anaconda fonts missing some pixels (horizontal lines) on some characters on some screens on some spokes (intel video driver)
Summary: anaconda fonts missing some pixels (horizontal lines) on some characters on s...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 18
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-28 12:16 UTC by Reartes Guillermo
Modified: 2014-02-05 18:36 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-02-05 18:36:37 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
in this picture, the 'o' are lacking a line (348.19 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-01-28 12:16 UTC, Reartes Guillermo
no flags Details
in this picture, the 'B' are lacking a line (240.79 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-01-28 12:17 UTC, Reartes Guillermo
no flags Details
horizontal lines in GUI element (ie, X to close brower tabs) (14.10 KB, image/png)
2013-02-03 12:54 UTC, Paul Bolle
no flags Details

Description Reartes Guillermo 2013-01-28 12:16:43 UTC
Created attachment 688903 [details]
in this picture, the 'o' are lacking a line

Description of problem:

Some letters in some screens on some spokes are "cut" horizontally, they are missing some horizontal pixels.

I don't know if it is anaconda / gtk / intel or bios/vbios related. 

HW EEE-701 VGA: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphic Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F18 Release

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot
  
Actual results:
some letters are missing some horizontal lines.

Expected results:
normal font display

Additional info:

It seems to be this issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/782855

In comment #24 some proposed a workaround:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Intel"
 Driver "intel"
 Option "DebugWait" "True"
EndSection

But it cannot be tested in Anaconda.

Comment 1 Reartes Guillermo 2013-01-28 12:17:49 UTC
Created attachment 688904 [details]
in this picture, the 'B' are lacking a line

Comment 2 Paul Bolle 2013-02-03 12:54:43 UTC
Created attachment 692304 [details]
horizontal lines in GUI element (ie, X to close brower tabs)

0) It's not only fonts: in this example the corruption occurs on the X's used to close tabs in Firefox.

1) Occurs with basically the same graphics card as in comment #0 (but "rev 03") on a i686 system running current F18.

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