Text display errors

[Jarrett Chisholm]

Binary package hint: xorg

Basically, text in Ubuntu tends not to draw quite right. Please see the attached screenshot (desktop1.png) for a visual.

I've noticed this happening in Ubuntu, Thunderbird, and Eclipse (the main 3 programs I use).

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
11.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
xorg

3) What you expected to happen
The text to printer properly/legibly.

4) What happened instead
The text does not always display properly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
DRM.card0.DVI.D.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1024x768
 edid-base64: AP///////wAyDAAAAAAAAAAPAQOAHhd4Cgggl1dSiCgiUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBZBkAQEEAJjAYiDYAMOQQAAAYZBkAQEEAJjAYiDYAMOQQAAAAAAAA/gBUTDU3NQAxNTBYMDkKAAAA/gDYyLiwiGBIKAEBCiAgAJI=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Fri Mar 18 22:17:57 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-02-04 18:07:51.411927
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01d4]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01d4]
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D520
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=59076d3c-1470-451f-be77-57719409cfac ro quiet splash
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-09 (9 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 0NF743
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd05/28/2007:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD520:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0NF743:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D520
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu5
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu5

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Jarrett Chisholm - I've forwarded this bug upstream to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35557 - please subscribe yourself to this bug, in case they need further information or wish you to test something. Thanks ahead of time!

[Oleksij Rempel (olerem)]

It looks more like some font problem. I had same issue on my netbook, but i can't reproduce it now, may be because of installed windows fonts (dependency for wine)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Jarrett, on a couple other bugs they've noticed corruption issues went away after the latest xserver fix (which reverted a patch that affects how menus are redrawn). One of the bugs involved a text corruption issue, so I wanted to doublecheck with you if you're still seeing this bug with the latest natty updates?

[Jarrett Chisholm (chisser98)]

Hi Bryce,

Thanks for looking into this, I appreciate it.

It seems the latest updates have resolved the issue.

Thanks again!

Cheers

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for following up, I'll go ahead and close it as fixed.