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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I'm not sure where to look. I've recently started having font |
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> problems when restarting my PC from hibernate-to-disk. Here are the |
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> symptoms... |
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> * I hibernate my home desktop machine when not using it |
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> * when I restart from hibernate, the following problems *SOMETIMES* occur |
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> * existing GUI windows are OK |
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> * launching new programs or dialogues (YES/NO, Apply/Cancel, etc) seems |
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> to have zero-size fonts |
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> * shutting down X and restarting it solves the problem, but if I have to |
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> go through that, it's almost as cumbersome as "sudo /usr/sbin/poff" |
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> and booting fresh |
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> I'm attaching a partial screen-capture of an existing gnumeric |
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> spreadsheet and a new one launched after waking up from hibernation. |
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> The tracker.gnumeric spreadsheet that was opened before hibernation is |
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> OK. The Book1.gnumeric spreadsheet was opened after waking up from |
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> hibernate. Note the missing "File Edit View etc" text menus. The |
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> location and formula areas are very thin, compared to the same areas in |
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> tracker.gnumeric. This happens to Opera, AbiWord, etc. I did this |
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> partial screencapture with Gimp. I left it open before hibernating. |
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> The radiobuttons and icons were OK in the screencapture dialogue, but |
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> the fonts were screwed up on the dialogue. I managed to do the |
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> screencapture from memory of which button was which. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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In addition to YoYo's comments it may also be graphics driver problem. |
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There were some comments on the Intel Gfx list this morning about |
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certain chips losing bit settings in hibernation. Possibly it's |
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something like that. |
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I don't know what hardware you're using but if the problem occurs |
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across lots of different app types, and because you used the words |
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'have started having font problems' implying maybe you didn't earlier, |
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then look into newer/older drivers to bisect the problem. |
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- Mark |
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