John D. Baker wrote: >On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, John D. Baker wrote: > >> From: John D. Baker <[email protected]> >> >> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Robert Swindells wrote: >> >> > Do you see any difference in text created using Xrender with your >> > different builds ? >> > >> > Running Firefox is an easy way to try this. >> >> The modular Xorg installation is currently waiting for the chain of >> dependencies leading up to Firefox to finish building... > >The modular Xorg installation with -current/i386 on the Dell Optiplex >GX110 also appears to render fonts properly in Firefox. I didn't >notice any difference between it or the all-GCC4.8.3, and the >GCC4.8.3/GCC4.5.4-intel_drv.so installations. > >Is there any thing in particular I should notice?
No, if it is readable then it sounds as if everything is fine. >So far the only shortcoming I've observed is the GCC4.8.3-built >intel_drv.so causing regions of alternating foreground/background >colors to be rendered as black. I was just wondering whether your find of a possible compiler problem would explain the Xrender problems that I see on intel GPU machines. Thanks for doing the tests. Robert Swindells
