So, with that clue, I restarted my virtual machine and added "nomodeset" to the kernel command line options, and I'm not seeing any missing letters! The graphics all look fine.
It's also curious that it's only text that's missing: all other widgets -- scroll bars, radio buttons, check boxes, etc -- look just fine.
Furthermore, I opened another bug last week about the mouse cursor registering clicks a few pixels away from the actual pointer when using Spice/QXL; see bug 974662. This bug is also fixed when using nomodeset!
I also noticed this in my X.log:
[ 14.230] qxl_kms_ surface_ create: Bad bpp: 1 (1) surface_ create: Bad bpp: 1 (1) surface_ create: Bad bpp: 1 (1)
[ 14.231] qxl_kms_
[ 14.231] qxl_kms_
This error comes from a recent commit to the qxl driver: cgit.freedeskto p.org/xorg/ driver/ xf86-video- qxl/commit/ ?id=3e37b2c
qxl: add KMS support v1.2
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So, with that clue, I restarted my virtual machine and added "nomodeset" to the kernel command line options, and I'm not seeing any missing letters! The graphics all look fine.
It's also curious that it's only text that's missing: all other widgets -- scroll bars, radio buttons, check boxes, etc -- look just fine.
Furthermore, I opened another bug last week about the mouse cursor registering clicks a few pixels away from the actual pointer when using Spice/QXL; see bug 974662. This bug is also fixed when using nomodeset!