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[Rocko <rockorequin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

Since upgrading to the latest open-source ATI driver, I have been
getting random font corruption. One or more characters will become
corrupted, after which all occurrences of these characters will be
corrupted. Eg see attached screenshot, which shows a corrupted bold 'C'
in the Places menu - normal 'C's are fine at this point, but all bold
'C's are corrupted in this manner, eg in window titles. Typically this
happens after some days, and seemingly randomly. Eventually X will
completely freeze and the PC will require rebooting.

I first noticed this in Jaunty when I upgraded xserver-xorg-core and the
ati driver to the version in Karmic (around September) to test if the
Google Earth corruption was fixed in the latest drivers, but it is now
also happening since upgrading to Karmic.

I don't get any such corruption on a different computer running
Karmic/compiz with an nvidia card, so it seems to be related to the ati
drivers.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov  5 20:25:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-02063101-generic i686
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       i686kernel:             2.6.31-02063101-generic

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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font corruption with xserver-xorg-video-ati driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475428
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