Quoting Sven Neumann:
> Hi,
> 
> Rob Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >   --argb-font              Use ARGB surfaces for fonts, needed for some
> >                            broken hardware.
> > 
> > Are ARGB surfaces for glyphs considered a bad thing? What other
> > options are there, and how does this relate to hardware broken-ness?
> 
> The natural choice is to use an A8 surface for antialiased glyphs and
> A1 otherwise. Certain matrox cards have a bug when blitting an A8

The bug was fixed long time ago, A8 on Matrox rocks ;)

The only limitation is that the G200 doesn't support A8, but the
driver automatically sets the default font format to ARGB.

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