Bug 351939 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5 fonts not rendering properly in Xorg using Intel graphics

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Larry Coker 2011-01-17 21:12:04 UTC]

After updating I noticed that fonts were not rendering properly in any applications. If I downgrade the kernel to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r24 the problem disappears.It occurs under the following versions 2.6.35.r15, 2.6.26-r5 and 2.6.37. This occurs with various fonts including but not limited to DejaVu-Serif
Attaching screenshot of problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open application and view fonts
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Actual Results:  
Fonts not displayed correctly


emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E4500_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:15:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r9
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomatic fortran gd gdbm gdu gif gpm hal iconv imap jpeg kde lcms libnotify mad mikmod mime mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell sql sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype type1 udev unicode usb vorbis webkit x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Larry Coker 2011-01-17 21:13:04 UTC]

Created attachment 260073 [details]
Example of how the fonts are being displayed

[Comment 2 Larry Coker 2011-01-17 21:14:49 UTC]

Created attachment 260074 [details]
Copy of lspci -v

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2011-01-20 07:45:15 UTC]

Please attach your Xorg.0.log.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Larry Coker 2011-01-20 16:29:00 UTC]

Created attachment 260379 [details]
Xorg.0.log

as requested

[Comment 5 Ben Kohler 2013-06-14 15:11:20 UTC]

Is this still a problem with current xorg-server / xf86-video-intel / kernel?

[Comment 6 Larry Coker 2013-06-21 17:34:38 UTC]

The problem appears to have gone away with kernel 3.8.13, xorg-server 1.13.4 and xf86-video-intel 2.20.13