There is a mega error :p with xorg-server-1.0.99.2. After running, it doesn't renders 80% fonts on screen. Even now I can see only some labels.I can't post emerge --info, because I can't find a terminal.
Confirmed; all bitmap fonts are very random as to when they display. Only appears to be a problem with bitmap fonts. Noticed at first when labels started disappearing gradually from gkrellm, then noticed some disappearing in Firefox too. Possily (more likely) caused by the new compositeproto also. Easiest way to make this happen: find something that shows a bitmap font, switch to another desktop, and switch back. No more text. Does not apply to rxvt-unicode, it appears. Thank goodness for that.. Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.16-beyond1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-beyond1 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/grass60/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage-beyond" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 arts asf audacious audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonjour bzip2 cairo ccache cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr clamav cli crypt cscope css ctype cups curl dba dbus dga disablexmb dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fame fastbuild ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gb gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glx gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl iconv icq imagemagick imlib inifile isdnlog ithreads jabber jack java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal ladcca libclamav libg++ libwww lirc live lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad mbox memlimit mhash mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng mono motif mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn musepack musicbrainz mysql ncurses network nls nntp nptl nptlonly nvidia oav objc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png posix ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba scanner sdl session sharedmem silc simplexml smp sndfile soap sockets socks5 spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl stream svg tabs tcltk tcpd tga theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 visualization vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xchat xcomposite xft xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zip zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Nevermind about the composite thing -- I already had it disabled in my xorg.conf. The only recently merged thing that could have caused this was xorg-server as originally thought.
The easy way to test what it is, is to try downgrading that component. So can you fix the problem by dropping back to xorg-server 1.0.2?
Backing down to 1.0.2-r3 fixes problem.
Please file this at bugs.freedesktop.org in the xorg product, and make it block bug #5041. Then post the URL here so we can track it. Thanks!
Done. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6581
There is new release of xserver-1.0.99.901. Maybe the problem is fixed and it is worth to merge it to portage.
No I have the same issues with both experimental versions