Bug 16147 - distorted and flickering fonts in Nvidia 173.14.0.5 and xorg-x11-server-1.4.99.901.
Summary: distorted and flickering fonts in Nvidia 173.14.0.5 and xorg-x11-server-1.4.9...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nVidia (proprietary) (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high normal
Assignee: Aaron Plattner
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showt...
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Reported: 2008-05-29 02:24 UTC by sangu
Modified: 2009-08-17 10:36 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description sangu 2008-05-29 02:24:30 UTC 
Using bitmap, Antialias off or sbit font -> distorted fonts.

OS: Fedora development (rawhide 20080528)
xorg-xserver : 1.4.99.901-30.20080519 snapshot
VGA : Nvidia 6800GS

See : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=113949
Comment 1 sangu 2008-05-29 04:06:47 UTC 
connecting this site < http://news.naver.com/sports/index.nhn?category=worldfootball > with firefox
=>  distorted and flickering fonts on firefox, CPU high usage. font name is Gulim with sbit.
Comment 2 Knut J Bjuland 2008-05-29 13:15:47 UTC 
When I am using KDE application I less affected by text distorion. But it affects opera pretty bad.
Comment 3 sangu 2008-05-30 17:06:00 UTC 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1668425&postcount=5
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This was a change in X server behavior for xserver 1.4.99.901, so older servers should not be affected. The problem only affects 1-bit glyphs so enabling antialiasing should work around the problem for now.
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Regardless of enable or disable antialiasing option, this problem always happens in Bitmap and sbit fonts.
Comment 4 sangu 2008-06-16 21:40:46 UTC 
Fixed in 173.14.09.

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