FS#9106 - System fonts blur and weird after system upgrade

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bruno (LnxArch) - Sunday, 06 January 2008, 00:50 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 24 May 2008, 08:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After making an system upgrade, wich upgraded xorg-server, nvidia-drivers and also kernel, among others, and after restarting, the screen fonts are all blur, all weird, it's hard to read the letters and so.

I've installed more fonts, reconfigured them, tryed with anti-alias and without, changed the dpi, a lot of things, and nothins, the fonts still appear all blury.

Additional info:
xorg 11R7.0-1
xorg-server 1.4.0.90-3
nvidia 100.14.19-6

These are the updated packages, among other that i can't remember, also i talked to a few friends that run Archlinux 32 bits and they also had the same problem


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 08:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Bug reports like this are impossible to fix. You will have more luck making changes in fontconfig yourself.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 09:22 GMT
Well, reports like this are hard to solve because of lack of the information.
"after system upgrade" is very unspecific, we don't know how old was your system.
Could you attach the bottom chunk of /var/log/pacman.log so we could see more info about that upgrade?
Also, xorg.conf and fonts.xml would be useful as well.
Comment by Bruno (LnxArch) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 13:46 GMT
Hello Roman, i send an attach file that has all the info yu requested, i think the problem was between the upgrade made between the 25/12/2007 and 5/1/2008
   logs_arch (14.7 KiB)
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 10 January 2008, 11:32 GMT
I wonder about this:
[2008-01-05 22:42] removed cairo (1.4.12-2)
[2008-01-05 22:42] removed libxft (2.1.12-1)
[2008-01-05 22:42] removed freetype2 (2.3.5-1)
[2008-01-05 22:42] installed cairo-lcd (1.4.12-1)
[2008-01-05 22:42] installed libxft-lcd (2.1.12-1)
[2008-01-05 22:48] installed freetype2 (2.3.5-1)

if this was just a -Syu - why these packages were replaced with -lcd versions?
either you have some repo at the top that pulled them or some other package did this

I guess those -lcd packages caused yor fonts to be blurry. They are some alternate version of subpixel antialiasing - probably with patent issues and thus not merged.
Comment by Bruno (LnxArch) - Thursday, 10 January 2008, 12:31 GMT
Hi Roman

Thanks for your reply, the problem with the blurry fonts happened before that day.
The removal of those packages and the replacement for lcd packages was an attempt to fix the blurry fonts.

So the problem happened before that day.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 10 January 2008, 12:51 GMT
Assuming that breakage is related only to package upgrade, not some config file, I can suggest only one thing - try to update your font cache:
fc-cache -f > /dev/null
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/TTF
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF
Comment by Bruno (LnxArch) - Thursday, 10 January 2008, 13:39 GMT
Thank you for your reply Roman

I've done what you said, but still i have the same problem, for instance now i'm writing this comment and the letter m is almost invisible to me, some letters are ok others i can't really see them
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 21:14 GMT
Is this still a problem?
Comment by Bruno (LnxArch) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 16:52 GMT
Grigorios Bouzakis (dolby)

Yes this is still a problem, right now i'm using the nv driver on Xorg, so the problem has to be with xorg server package or the nvidia driver package. I've talk to other users who have this problem, one of them was using the ati driver (because he has na ati card). So i'm thinking this has something to with the nvidia driver for Arch64 or the xorg-server package. This is pretty annoyng not to be able to fully enjoy the graphic card =(
Comment by Bruno (LnxArch) - Friday, 16 May 2008, 19:23 GMT
A new update to this problem, i found out that what causes this is the NVIDIA driver for Archlinux64... This is not the first time this happens, i'm waiting now for the new driver to see if the situation gets fixed.
So attention to the NVIDIA driver for Arch64

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