i've fixed the problem shown in the urls down below. my framebuffer was running at 8bpp. i modified the driver to support 16bpp (i was doing this for unrelated reasons) and the font problem cleared up completely. i'd say that this points at an obvious bug somewhere in the font rendering code. i really don't know where it would be, however. is there somewhere more "official" i should file this as a bug report? paul > i've installed the Xfbdev server from the current Debian "testing" > release. the hardware is an embedded MIPS little-endian device, though > it's a complete enough system to run "real" debian -- not a stripped > version of some sort. > > i've captured three samples of the problem. the first two are > from the "roadmap" application, the third is the "minitime" clock running > under matchbox's mbdock app. the fourth is of rxvt, and shows that not > all text is affected -- just the title bar. you'll also note that in > most cases, not every character is affected. > > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/about.jpg > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/menus.jpg > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/minitime.jpg > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/rxvtprob.jpg > > can someone suggest what this system might be missing, or, if it looks > like a bug, where it might live, and how to work around it? > > i'm not much of an X11 guy, so thanks very much in advance! > (which also means i'm not sure what extra information i should be > providing about my system to help folks try to answer this.) > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 62.2 degrees) > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 =--------------------- paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 62.2 degrees) _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
