Comment 32 for bug 703191

The rendering bugfix is incorporated into cairo 1.11.4, released 2012-03-12, so that's a little bit of progress I suppose.

For whatever reason, though, now that I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 beta, even my lovingly hand-patched and compiled version of Cairo doesn't seem to resolve this problem anymore. (It worked in 11.04 and I skipped 11.10.)

And I also see that the UI for selecting a desired subpixel orientation has been removed from Ubuntu (though there's still a key in gconf at /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/rgba_order).

Argh.

You know what DOES work? Mounting my monitor upside-down. Voilà, instant R-G-B stripe order.

That's what it has come to.