I can confirm this also for me; it's more than a month I'm affected by this and it's very annoying. Also, some other widgets are anti-aliased in a strange way; for example some web pages are rendered badly, or some widget borders flicker.
More irritatingly, these artifacts change when you type, so your attention gets easily carried away. It does stress your sight. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0543] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+ Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel modules: intelfb 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0543] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at d0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: <access denied> -- [i855] Strange rendering of some letters with driver version >2.3.x https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316588 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs