Craig van vliet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am getting weird display problems in my fonts. This appears mainly in
> firefox but also the terminal. Sometimes m look like squiggles, H appears
> only in the top half, same with number 4, other problems too.
This is a bug introduced in the FreeType 2.3.6 upgrade in build 93.
It should be fixed with the FreeType 2.3.7 upgrade coming in build 96.
Until then, my laptop fonts got better by going into the Appearance
preferences in GNOME, going to the font panel, and choosing the
"Best Shapes" option.
> My graphics card is integrated 855GM in a Acer Travelmate laptop, in
> Xorg.conf it is using the vesa driver. When booting 2008.05 we had to
> disable-pcic=true and pci-reprog=off to get past problems with this device.
> In latest update b93 this is not required now, boots fine.
>
> Should I be using i810 or an intel driver? Any suggestions?
Yes - on Solaris, i810 is just a link to the intel driver, so they're
the same.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
