font corruption with xserver-xorg-video-ati driver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-driver-ati |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Ubuntu |
Opinion
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
Since upgrading to the latest open-source ATI driver, I have been getting random font corruption. One or more characters will become corrupted, after which all occurrences of these characters will be corrupted. Eg see attached screenshot, which shows a corrupted bold 'C' in the Places menu - normal 'C's are fine at this point, but all bold 'C's are corrupted in this manner, eg in window titles. Typically this happens after some days, and seemingly randomly. Eventually X will completely freeze and the PC will require rebooting.
I first noticed this in Jaunty when I upgraded xserver-xorg-core and the ati driver to the version in Karmic (around September) to test if the Google Earth corruption was fixed in the latest drivers, but it is now also happening since upgrading to Karmic.
I don't get any such corruption on a different computer running Karmic/compiz with an nvidia card, so it seems to be related to the ati drivers.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 5 20:25:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xserver-
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: xserver-
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-
affects: | xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | Invalid → Opinion |
This attachment shows the title bar when I view the previous screen, showing how each instance of (bold) 'c' is corrupted.