On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 01:45, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On 21 Dec 2001, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 19:24, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Chris Ortega wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I installed 4.1.0 and now all the fonts are just boxes..is there a missing > > > > file or a bug in the install > > > > > > > > I have tried multiple install techniques and no luck...thanks... > > > > > > Could be an acceleration bug in the driver. You didn't mention > > > which card you have. If Option "NoAccel" in the Section "Device" > > > makes it go away, that's what it is. If not, it's something else. > > > > Have you actually seen a driver bug causing all characters to appear as > > boxes? I have experienced that when upgrading from 4.0.3 to 4.1.0 and it > > went away when I restarted the font server. > > > Sure. Many graphic engines are programmed like follows: > > 1) The destination is a rectangle x,y,w,h. > 2) The source color comes from one of the following: the color0 > register, the color1 register, color data from the CPU, monochrome > data from the cpu. We want the last one. > 3) monochrome data from cpu specific parameters. choices: > a) 0 bit means color0, 1 bit means color1. > b) 0 bit means transparent, 1 bit means color1. > c) a) but reversed. > d) b) but reversed. > > This is just generic graphics engine description. Most are more > complicated than this. If step 2 has changed between chip models > you can draw solid boxes. I would expect a bug like that before > I would expect a font rendering bug.
Fair enough. The reporter should have included a screenshot, I didn't experience solid boxes but hollow (?) ones, and it seems so did he as restarting the font server also helped him. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
