David, > given that the problem only arises when using anti-aliased > text, I suspect that the FreeType code within the X Server > is not the culprit. > > AA text rendering is handled very differently from the > standard X11 text model. Basically, it works as follows: > [...] > All of this is handled by the RENDER extension. > > So, I suspect the problem to be in the RENDER extension, > because a bug in libXft, the FreeType version used by the > application shouldn't generate such a freeze (at worst, > only the offending application should be locked, not the > whole server). > > Given that it seems to be a bug specific to NVidia's > implementation, I suggest to contact them to file a > bug report.
I hear NVIDIA can't be bothered to deal with bug reports, so I'll just drop this issue. I believe I mentioned that their previous driver works fine, so I'm using it instead. Anyway, thanks for your lucid explanation of X's font handling. -- Haakon _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
