As already described in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251242 after upgrading xorg-server to 1.5.3 (or 1.5.3-r1), the 'fixed' font does not work as expected (changes in size or does not work at all, depending on the used size). As the upstream bug[1] suggest, it is not limited to the 'fixed' font, but all bitmap fonts are affected. On a side note, although this bug only talks about EXA, I'm experiencing this bug with XAA (xf86-video-ati). [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19233
Then reopen that bug or request it there.... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251242 ***
I was explicitly asked to open this new bug as it is a different issue than the other bug, see the last comment by Rémi Cardona. So I'm reopening this bug.
Then why should bug-wranglers even get to see this one?
(In reply to comment #3) > Then why should bug-wranglers even get to see this one? > I'm sorry for the confusion, but I don't know how to assign a bug directly to x11@gentoo.org (am I actually allowed to do that?). But the bug description could have been a least a bit more better to reflect the need for this bug. Here is a link to the mentioned comment which contains further links to related comments describing the problem and a possible solution that works for me, although the linked comment suggests, there is a better way to solve the problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251242#c50
I think I also experience this kind of problem. I previously had problems with 1.5.3 that resulted in kanji characters not displayed correctly. This seems to be fixed with 1.5.3-r1, but a problem remains that I can see when xscreensaver has locked the session. With 1.5.2 the xscreensaver login screen does use various font styles, like normal, bold, etc. With 1.5.3-r1 all text is displayed with the same (too small) font. Clearly not the correct behaviour.
Should be fixed in 1.5.3-r2, please reopen if it's not the case. Thanks
*** Bug 248637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
