[Bug 18399] Bitmap-font glyph corruption in Gnome-terminal [EXA enabled]

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18399





--- Comment #4 from Øyvind Stegard <oyvinst at ifi.uio.no>  2008-11-06 03:35:16 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Disabling accelerated download-from-screen resolves the corruption issues with
> > bitmap fonts (or non-anti-aliased fonts) in Gnome-terminal.
> 
> So it looks like at least some of the issues you reported boil down to AccelDFS
> being broken on your setup.
> 
> Can you try if the radeon kernel module built from
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm fixes the AccelDFS issues?

I will try this later (when I get home from work ;) and report back.  

<snip>

> This is because anti-aliased font rendering is accelerated whereas aliased font
> rendering is not (which BTW is fixed in current upstream xserver Git).
> 

Ah, I see :). The only place I ever use a non-antialiased-font is in
Gnome-terminal, because the classic MiscFixed 6x13 just has unbeatable clarity.


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