awful troubles with fonts

shuthdar · 2006-09-06 20:07:09

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4900/wtfny8.png

Here's a screenshot of how my firefox (and most other programs, excluding terminals) look now. Text appear and hides again randomly

If I try to select some text - it becomes visible, it may stay visible some time after unselecting or may hide again. In QT apps there are no text in menus at all, but in GTK same fonts are visible, but they also may appear and disappear.

I did "pacman -Q | grep font" and reinstalled all packages listed - no matter. How can it be solved? :?

Thanks...

chrismortimore · 2006-09-06 20:17:15

What xorg version are you running?
Are you using an nvidia or ati card? If you are, what driver version are you running?

shuthdar · 2006-09-06 20:20:20

chrismortimore wrote:

What xorg version are you running?
Are you using an nvidia or ati card? If you are, what driver version are you running?

Xorg 7.1, Nvidia TNT 2, driver nvidia from nvidia-legacy (not sure about version). All was good before yesterday, and I did nothing with any setup.

chrismortimore · 2006-09-06 20:28:00

shuthdar wrote:

Xorg 7.1, Nvidia TNT 2, driver nvidia from nvidia-legacy (not sure about version). All was good before yesterday, and I did nothing with any setup.

Make sure you are running nvidia-legacy-1.0-7184 for xorg-7.1 support. nvidias had a lot of issues with font rendering in xorg-7.1, and I'm not convinced they fixed it all. If you are running 7184, try rolling back to xorg-7.0, that will probably fix it.

shuthdar · 2006-09-06 20:30:33

It's 1.0.7182-1... I'll try to upgrade.

shuthdar · 2006-09-06 20:37:57

It helped. Thanks a lot!

chrismortimore · 2006-09-06 20:38:51

shuthdar wrote:

It helped. Thanks a lot!

My pleasure

phrakture · 2006-09-06 20:39:40

I've seen this before, and i think it's a pango/cairo issue. Try switching to Xft only rendering.... the trick is some define... gullible jones posted about it somewhere... I'll see if I can find it.

sh__ · 2006-09-06 22:21:32

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

Put it in a file that is sourced when starting X (~/.xinitrc for example).

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awful troubles with fonts

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