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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #293059
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 293059

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L300 (l300) wrote : Re: [i830] font drawing corruption regression ubuntu intrepid

After upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Intrepid, I encountered the same problem. My system is IBM Thinkpad R31. Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy - all of them had not such a problem. I attach my lspci, Xorg.0.log and a screenshot.
I tried install kubuntu, xubuntu - all shows the same error after couple of minutes (kubuntu took the longest).

I tried to add abovementioned "Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"" into my xorg.conf to no avail. X did not start at all, unless I removed that line completely.

The behavior of this bug is that it starts as nearly non visible problems, sometimes font is not displayed in gnome menu, then it starts to get worst (some characters are corrupted) to the worst level where most of the characters become squarish unreadable dizzy bugs.

My temporary solution is to change screen resolution from 1024x768 to 800x600 and back. That clears the fonts again for a while.

Any hints?