m...@eterna.com.au (matthew green) writes: >> >The functional issue is with the xf86-video-intel driver. It does not >> >work on any of my amd64 systems using intel graphics devices. (It does >> >work well on older i386 systems using real i82915 chips or ancient i82810e >> >device). >> >> It seems to work on my laptop (Sandy Bridge graphics).
>for me it works for many things, but not true type fonts in some >terminal programs. >the canonical failure mode is simply typing into "mate-terminal", >and you get garbage in the typed text until you press return. I just tried with several terminals (not mate-terminal) and "Luxi Mono", seems to work as expected. xterm has a small problem with the Oblique variant because it exceeds the regular bounding box and is clipped, but I doubt that's a driver issue. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."