[gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Marc Koschewski]

Hi all,

I'm new to the list as I didn't have a reason to complain about Gentoo since I
use it. I was a frustrated Debian user before. :) But now a problem appeared I
didn't get fixed so far.

I did an emerge --sync and emerge world yesterday and since then my font
rendering is broken in GNOME (ok, just partly - means: ie. several menu items
not drawn, Mozilla bookmarks partly not drawn). Also Web pages in Mozilla are
not readable sometimes (actually as if the don't have text in them). Scrolling
a Web page with scrambled content make it appear correctly. Also does moving
the mouse over the menu fix the correct display of the items in case there are
some that are drawn incorrectly.

I reverted pango to 1.12.0 but no change. So i re-emerged pango to 1.12.1. I
reverted glib, no change, so I re-emerged.

Hope anyone has a clue (or better: a solution). The emerge before yesterday was
last Friday, FYI. No probs then.

Regards,
Marc
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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

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On 10:47 Thu 13 Apr     , Marc Koschewski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to the list as I didn't have a reason to complain about Gentoo since I
> use it. I was a frustrated Debian user before. :) But now a problem appeared I
> didn't get fixed so far.
> 
> I did an emerge --sync and emerge world yesterday and since then my font
> rendering is broken in GNOME (ok, just partly - means: ie. several menu items
> not drawn, Mozilla bookmarks partly not drawn). Also Web pages in Mozilla are
> not readable sometimes (actually as if the don't have text in them). Scrolling
> a Web page with scrambled content make it appear correctly. Also does moving
> the mouse over the menu fix the correct display of the items in case there are
> some that are drawn incorrectly.
> 
> I reverted pango to 1.12.0 but no change. So i re-emerged pango to 1.12.1. I
> reverted glib, no change, so I re-emerged.
> 
> Hope anyone has a clue (or better: a solution). The emerge before yesterday was
> last Friday, FYI. No probs then.
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
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> 
Ok. Same behaviour here (not solved).

Are you using nvidia proprietary driver? If so, and you switch to 'nv' driver
problem is gone, isn't?

Xgl does not have this problem... 

I use fvwm, so that's not an gnome related issue (furthermore, I use kde
based apps, and that weird behaivour also is reproducing)...

Are you using Xorg modular?

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Linux galiza_ceive 2.6.16-ck4 #3 PREEMPT Thu Apr 13 10:58:18 CEST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) GNU/Linux

[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756  0 kB 

[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2  USE="dri -debug -ipv6 -minimal -xprint" 0 kB 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Marc Koschewski]

* Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 16:15:04 +0200]:

> On 10:47 Thu 13 Apr     , Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm new to the list as I didn't have a reason to complain about Gentoo since I
> > use it. I was a frustrated Debian user before. :) But now a problem appeared I
> > didn't get fixed so far.
> > 
> > I did an emerge --sync and emerge world yesterday and since then my font
> > rendering is broken in GNOME (ok, just partly - means: ie. several menu items
> > not drawn, Mozilla bookmarks partly not drawn). Also Web pages in Mozilla are
> > not readable sometimes (actually as if the don't have text in them). Scrolling
> > a Web page with scrambled content make it appear correctly. Also does moving
> > the mouse over the menu fix the correct display of the items in case there are
> > some that are drawn incorrectly.
> > 
> > I reverted pango to 1.12.0 but no change. So i re-emerged pango to 1.12.1. I
> > reverted glib, no change, so I re-emerged.
> > 
> > Hope anyone has a clue (or better: a solution). The emerge before yesterday was
> > last Friday, FYI. No probs then.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Marc
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> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
> Ok. Same behaviour here (not solved).

OK, I'm glad I didn't mess up the machine. ;)

> 
> Are you using nvidia proprietary driver? If so, and you switch to 'nv' driver
> problem is gone, isn't?

Yes, I do. But I don't use the Gentoo nvidia-kernel package. I use the older
1.0-8178 module that I build from source. It's more comfortable for me as I use
only kernel.org's -git kernels.

I'll try the 'nv' module later.

> 
> Xgl does not have this problem... 

Didn't try this yet. Xgl didn't work for me yet. :/

> 
> I use fvwm, so that's not an gnome related issue (furthermore, I use kde
> based apps, and that weird behaivour also is reproducing)...
> 
> Are you using Xorg modular?

Yes, I do.

Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

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Qui, 2006-04-13 às 15:45 +0200, Marc Koschewski escreveu:
> * Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 16:15:04 +0200]:
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> > > 
> > Ok. Same behaviour here (not solved).
> 
> OK, I'm glad I didn't mess up the machine. ;)

Yes, I thought so, because I did an --> emerge --depclean
-av;revdep-rebuild -av <-- before updating world.

> > 
> > Are you using nvidia proprietary driver? If so, and you switch to 'nv' driver
> > problem is gone, isn't?
> 
> Yes, I do. But I don't use the Gentoo nvidia-kernel package. I use the older
> 1.0-8178 module that I build from source. It's more comfortable for me as I use
> only kernel.org's -git kernels.
> 
> I'll try the 'nv' module later.

Probably you won't get any font rendering related trouble. Let's see.

> > 
> > Xgl does not have this problem... 
> 
> Didn't try this yet. Xgl didn't work for me yet. :/
> 
> > 
> > I use fvwm, so that's not an gnome related issue (furthermore, I use kde
> > based apps, and that weird behaivour also is reproducing)...
> > 
> > Are you using Xorg modular?
> 
> Yes, I do.

My latest xorg-server update was:

.-(~)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(joham_luis@galiza_ceive)-
`--> genlop -lu|tail -n 200|grep -i xorg-server
     Wed Apr 12 20:51:14 2006 <<< x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3
     Wed Apr 12 20:51:14 2006 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2

Right now I don't have the time (gotta do some work) to emerge
"="xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 and see what happens... But that's  next on my
to-do tasks.

> Marc
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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Richard Fish]

On 4/13/06, Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to the list as I didn't have a reason to complain about Gentoo since I
> use it. I was a frustrated Debian user before. :) But now a problem appeared I
> didn't get fixed so far.

The last time someone reported a font problem here (about a week ago),
it was fixed by forcing a 75dpi resolution.

Try setting 'Option "UseEdidDpi" "Off"' in xorg.conf, and comment out
any DisplaySize options.  This should give you a 75x75 dpi (check with
xdpyinfo, or in /var/log/Xorg.0.log).

In the worst case, you might have to start the X server with the -dpi 75 option.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

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Well, here the issue was solved by downgrading xorg-server. Now, I'm
running:
x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2

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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Marc Koschewski]

* Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 20:49:50 +0200]:

> Well, here the issue was solved by downgrading xorg-server. Now, I'm
> running:
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2

I'm running 1.0.99.2 ... :(

Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

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On 21:16 Thu 13 Apr     , Marc Koschewski wrote:
> * Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 20:49:50 +0200]:
> 
> > Well, here the issue was solved by downgrading xorg-server. Now, I'm
> > running:
> > x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2
> 
> I'm running 1.0.99.2 ... :(
> 
> Marc
> 
Sorry, I meant x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3. I unmasked xorg modular to
try it, but forgot to clean /etc/portage/package.unmask when it reached
~x86 (which is what I'm using).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Marc Koschewski]

* Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 23:00:57 +0200]:

> On 21:16 Thu 13 Apr     , Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > * Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 20:49:50 +0200]:
> > 
> > > Well, here the issue was solved by downgrading xorg-server. Now, I'm
> > > running:
> > > x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2
> > 
> > I'm running 1.0.99.2 ... :(
> > 
> > Marc
> > 
> Sorry, I meant x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3. I unmasked xorg modular to
> try it, but forgot to clean /etc/portage/package.unmask when it reached
> ~x86 (which is what I'm using).

OK, I'll give it a try and report.

Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] Font rendering broken in GNOME and GTK2 apps ...

[Marc Koschewski]

* Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> [2006-04-14 10:56:28 +0200]:

> * Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 23:00:57 +0200]:
> 
> > On 21:16 Thu 13 Apr     , Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > > * Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <galiza.ceive@gmail.com> [2006-04-13 20:49:50 +0200]:
> > > 
> > > > Well, here the issue was solved by downgrading xorg-server. Now, I'm
> > > > running:
> > > > x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.2
> > > 
> > > I'm running 1.0.99.2 ... :(
> > > 
> > > Marc
> > > 
> > Sorry, I meant x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3. I unmasked xorg modular to
> > try it, but forgot to clean /etc/portage/package.unmask when it reached
> > ~x86 (which is what I'm using).
> 
> OK, I'll give it a try and report.
> 
> Marc

OK, I reverted to =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 and it works as expected.

Thanks anyone. ;)

Marc

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