Hi, I've had some problems with certain DRI applications occasionally corrupting fonts in programs that use Xft. The corruption was noticeable after the DRI program exited. Strangely, it could be mitigated by running another different DRI program afterwards; this seems to be the only way to get rid of the corruption (moving the window off screen or minimizing/maximizing it doesn't work).
Here are the steps to reproduce with 100% success for me: - Install licq (1.2.7 here) - Install the Qt licq plugin - Choose the "bheart" skin for licq-qt - Ensure that anti-aliases fonts are being used (QT_XFT=1) - Run either Quake2 (0.2.1) or crack-attack (1.1.9) - Exit the game Voila, your fonts should now be corrupted in that program. (The rest of the pixmaps are okay). crack-attack seems to corrupt worse than quake2. Now, run Unreal Tournament (UTPG latest version, which coincidentally still won't display a mouse cursor for me in recent mga DRI driver). After exiting UT, the corruption is gone 2 out of 3 times. I can also reproduce it using pan (with GDK_USE_XFT on) but the licq case is the most blindingly obvious. This has been going on for probably over a year now so I'd like to start heading towards a solution if possible. I am running Debian with Michel's XFree86 4.3.99 DRI trunk package, a recent DRM modules, 2.4.23 kernel, and a MGA G400 MAX. The same thing happened with previous MGA G400 16MB. I think something in the mga DRI driver is stomping on memory used for the fonts, but only under certain circumstances (triggered by e.g. quake2 and crack-attack). any ideas? -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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