Bug#346421: Font corruption in GTK+ and Qt apps

[Lluis]

El Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:24:58AM +0200, Michel Dänzer ens deleità amb les següents paraules:
> On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 00:53 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:59 +0200, Lluis wrote:
>>>> So this happens both with the proprietary nvidia driver, the intel one, 
>>>> and both with GTK+ and Qt applications?
>>> 
>>> this is what it seems...
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> This sounds more like a problem with the X server. From the xorg.conf it 
>>>> looks like you have a very custom setup, have you tried to temporarily 
>>>> move it out of the way and try with the default settings? The ones that 
>>>> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" gives you?
>>> 
>>> well, after fiddling around with the "optional" lines of my xorg.conf, I've 
>>> found a combination of two lines which drive the rendering crazy (in the 
>>> Device section):
>>> 
>>> Option "AccelMethod" "exa" 
>>> Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
> 
> The latter has no effect with the former.
> 
> Also, the nvidia driver doesn't use EXA.

I don't know, but the fact is that the font corruption problem only arised 
when activating both options at the same time (I tried almost all 
combinations of options until finding this as the minimum set for 
reproducing the error).

Thanks,
  Lluis

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