Bug#943664: Solution for PowerMac11,2

Ralf P. debian at paaschen.de
Fri May 1 18:16:01 UTC 2020


On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:10:50AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> > Note: For me this triggers another bug: If I run my AMD Radeon
> > hardware accelerated the X11 internal font server shows garbled
> > (sometimes looking like reversed) characters.
> > Client side font rendering (Firefox, LibreOffice, Emacs, sakura)
> > works.
> > My Nvidia card is affected too. Until now I have no soultion for this.
> 
> Sounds like https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1011 .

Confirmed!

Setting "AccelMethod" to "EXA" in xorg.conf
-> all characters are OK

Setting "AccelMethod" to "glamor" in xorg.conf
-> all characters are garbled/mirrored


@Michel: Thank you very much for this hint.

@Michel: You already replied to:
         https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1011
         Do you want me to confirm the bug on freedesktop.org for PPC64?



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