FS#12352 - Nvidia drivers font rendering problem

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin Mísař (misarm) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 19:37 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 11:23 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Jan de Groot (JGC)
Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
There is a bug in last nvidia-96xx drivers (ver.96.43.09-1). This driver has font rendering problems on cards - GeForce2 MX/MX 400 and also other(geforce 4 mx 460,GeForce Ti 4200,...) - see attached picture. There seems to be same problem also in nvidia-173xx drivers with GeForce FX 5600.
Maybe there is one possibility how to "solve" it for now - by enabling antialiasing and subpixel hinting of fonts.

please see also: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58594

Additional info:
* package version(s)
nvidia-96xx 96.43.09-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
   font_errors.png (75.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Sunday, 07 December 2008, 11:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 20:13 GMT
This is solved in the 180.11 drivers. Alternativly you could use the nv driver from xorg.
Comment by Martin Mísař (misarm) - Saturday, 06 December 2008, 13:45 GMT
>in reply to: 2008-12-05: A task closure has been requested.
>Reason for request: Sorry, nothing we can do about it...
I don't know how many users are affected by this problem, but you may for example to release add stable drivers (96.43.07) not beta (96.43.09) from nvidia...
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Saturday, 06 December 2008, 14:19 GMT
Afaik those drivers do not support xorg-server 1.5.3.

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