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Hi there,
after doing an upgrade of the system (by doing pacman -Syu), it appears that fonts are broken when using an app like Firefox, Chromium and/or Thunar. Only Opera would still show fonts correctly.
It appears for the moment I can work-around the problem by disabling SNA acceleration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
#Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection
but obviously this is not an ideal solution.
Some logs for posterity's sake:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 08)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
The Intel driver I upgraded to as part of performing the system upgrade is:
extra/xf86-video-intel 2.20.10-1 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]
X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Anybody else experienced this problem? For the record, I did check out this post and did what is being told in below post:
Fontconfig 2.10.1 update - manual intervention required
http://www.archlinux.org/news/fontconfi … -required/
that did not solve it however. I believe this is a driver-related issue instead.
Last edited by Squarepusher (2012-10-20 15:27:54)
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What does "fonts are broken" refer to? Which fonts? What is the problem?
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What does "fonts are broken" refer to? Which fonts? What is the problem?
Fonts appear like this with SNA acceleration enabled
Last edited by Squarepusher (2012-10-20 15:37:49)
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Same here also with Intel HD 4000.
Went back to 2.20.9-2 for now:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-intel-2.20.9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Fixed.
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I also had the same issue, and fixed it with a role back
Also have Intel HD 4000
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All men have stood for freedom...
For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down.
Gerrard Winstanley.
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Different issue, I think. This font rendering problem is very specific so far to Intel HD 4000 graphics and the latest xf86-video-intel driver version 2.20.10-1. A rollback of just the driver (no mesa or libgl packages) fixes the issue. This may warrant a bug report of its own. If no one beats me to it, I'll submit one later....not at my computer right now. I had the same issue as the OP this morning after updating.
Scott
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OK, I provided the link just in case. Is there any improvement with 2.20.12-1?
All men have stood for freedom...
For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down.
Gerrard Winstanley.
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Is there any improvement with 2.20.12-1?
Ah, perfect! That fixes the font rendering problems. I wonder if it also fixes some of the performance regressions that other people have seen with 2.20.10-1? I don't use any compositing at all....not sure if that's relevant or not not.
So if you have this issue, either downgrade to 2.20.9-2, or upgrade to 2.20.12-1 from [testing] for now.
Scott
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Same issue. fixed by the rollback. Thanks !
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Yeah, 2.20.12-1 definitly fixes the font rendering problems. We can update now.
But there are no changes regarding KDE+mesa9. Right now we have 2 choices if we want desktop effects with opengl:
-- use kwin: some artifacts, very slow
-- use kwin_gles: many artifacts but very fast
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I had the same issue and created a thread as well. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151118
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