Re: Cairo text problems

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 05:16:48PM -0400, Michael wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
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> >On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:56:53PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >>>Since we can't easily update base Xorg in NetBSD, would it
> >>>make sense
> >>>to roll Cairo back to 1.10.2 ?
> >>
> >>I suspect we might benefit from a cairo110 package....
> >
> >Before we use big hammers and hide the problem, can we find out which
> >drivers are affected, which options work around it etc?
> >
> >We might be even able to fix the bugs, if we find out how to reproduce
> >them. (This all should not stop us from creating a separate legacy
> >cairo
> >pkg, of course - but we should file xsrc PRs agains base X first)
> 
> Hmm, I haven't seen text corruption in firefox or any other X
> application in a long time, what I have here is mostly radeons and
> what you'd find in old ( and not so old ) Suns and macs. So, which
> drivers are we talking about?

vga0 at pci1 dev 5 function 0: ATI Technologies product 0x9614 (rev. 0x00)
radeondrm0 at vga0: ATI Radeon 3300 Graphics
radeondrm0: Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613

Thats an integrated chip on the mb.

Bernd