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mzzzzb

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Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 9

[Solved] Text rendering partially in some applications

I have a strange issue where several letters are missing in text rendered in different applications. I dont have a reliable way to replicate this but I think this happens after I resume from sleep. The extent of missing characters is also changing, after sometime a lot more characters are show up. Restarting a single application does not help, only after a clean logout and login everything is fine again.  I have captured some screenshots --

This is firefox

This is terminator

This is gnucash

while some other applications run fine -- chrome, skype, telegram, viber, xterm, thunar

I am using i3 with lightdm

i3 version 4.12 (2016-03-06, branch "4.12") © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
lightdm 1.16.7

on a

Linux comp-5 4.4.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 10 07:38:19 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Xorg version is

X.Org X Server 1.18.1
Release Date: 2016-02-08
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.2.5-1-ARCH x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux comp-5 4.4.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 10 07:38:19 CET 2016 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=06d490b2-8f6e-40e7-a86b-1e0971c51fa5 rw resume=/dev/mapper/vg-swap
Build Date: 11 February 2016  09:57:03AM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0

video driver is

xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+579+g74cd4d0-1

I dont have a clue on where to start looking for a solution. Please advise on what logs I need to look at for this.

Thanks

Last edited by mzzzzb (2016-04-24 16:22:42)

xgdgsc

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved] Text rendering partially in some applications

several related threads:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210296
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210112

For me the solution was downgrading xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1 -> 1:2.99.917+552+ge41040f-1 or upgrading 1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1 to 1:2.99.917+579+g74cd4d0-1. Since you already updated, maybe you can try downgrading.

mzzzzb

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Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] Text rendering partially in some applications

Thanks a lot for a quick reply

I have had this problem intermittenlty for sometime and have upgraded xf86-video-intel many times. So I tried changing the Acceleration method as suggested in other threads first.

After a reboot and a couple of sleep/resume things are looking fine as of yet. Will give it a bit more time to confirm this really fixed this issue.

--Edit
Havent seen the problem again seems like upgrading fixed it.

Last edited by mzzzzb (2016-04-24 16:22:11)