Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:2.3.1-1
Severity: normal
I track all the testing updates and ended up with no font
rendering starting about two weeks ago. At first all the fonts
became invisible/transparent. That lasted for two weeks, as
I was trying reinstallation of all the X parts to no effect.
Then it suddenly started working normally for awhile on Saturday.
After rebooting that time, it turned into the black rectangles as
in the JPG included in this thread. To confirm that my hardware
had not glitched, I installed another fresh testing image onto
a spare disk, but it had black rectangles, too. Then I tried
installing Ubuntu 8.4 and that worked perfectly out of the box,
including compiz, etc. I took the deb from the Ubuntu install and
used dpkg to force it onto my Debian testing. That turned the font
rendering back into transparent. So I tried a couple more older
versions from snapshot.debian.net, but those were all transparent
back to November. The working Ubuntu version is 2:2.2.1-1ubuntu13.
I guess that depends on a related core version to work so nicely.
One odd effect that drove me crazy was that every once in a
while, maybe every 15 restarts, the fonts would come back working
normally. Just enough random reinforcement to drive me nuts.
Then on the next reboot they were back to black rectangles.
I thought I had some kind of disk corruption of those particular
GUI fonts for awhile, then worried my hardware was unstable,
since it worked sometimes but not others. Finally I stumbled
across this bug report. The workaround to add AccelMethod
XAA works perfectly for me.
-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /var/lib/x11/X.roster:
xserver-xorg
/var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist.
X server symlink status:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-09-05 17:59 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1674940 2008-04-29 13:37 /usr/bin/Xorg
Contents of /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster:
xserver-xorg
VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf does not match checksum in /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum.
Xorg X server configuration file status:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1755 2008-05-28 18:16 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type man xorg.conf at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section Files
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier Generic Keyboard
Driver kbd
Option CoreKeyboard
Option XkbRules xorg
Option XkbModel pc104
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier Configured Mouse
Driver mouse
Option CorePointer
Option Device/dev/input/mice
Option Protocol ImPS/2
Option Emulate3Buttons false
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
Section Device
Identifier Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics
Controller
Driver intel
BusID PCI:0:2:0
Option AccelMethod XAA
EndSection
Section Monitor
Identifier Generic Monitor
Option DPMS
HorizSync 28-84
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection
Section Screen
Identifier Default Screen
Device Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics
Controller
Monitor Generic Monitor
DefaultDepth24
SubSection Display
Modes 1680x1050 1024x768 800x600
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section ServerLayout
Identifier Default Layout
Screen Default Screen
InputDevice Generic Keyboard
InputDevice Configured Mouse
EndSection
Xorg X server log files on system:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 2008-05-28 18:20 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Contents of most recent Xorg X server log file
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the xorg product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See
