Hinting/Antialiasing broken after 9.04->9.10 update

[Albrecht Dreß]

Binary package hint: fontconfig

The update 9.04 -> 9.10 broke the hinting/rendering of the X desktop fonts on my box (see screenshot). As it influences ttf only (xterm w/ a bitmap font still looks as usual), I guess it's a fontconfig bug. The only option to get a usable desktop is to switch off hinting *completely*.

Note that the fonts in Firefox are still broken, but sometimes a "zoom out" - "Zoom normal" sequence makes everything readable again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Sat Oct 31 14:56:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: fontconfig 2.6.0-1ubuntu12
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-powerpc
SourcePackage: fontconfig
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-powerpc ppc