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From: "Pavel Kouřil" <djpaulway@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE no longer rendering fonts properly
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:08:36
Message-Id: 448D8174.8010601@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] KDE no longer rendering fonts properly by Daevid Vincent
1 Daevid Vincent wrote:
2 > What happened to my KDE 3.5.3?
3 >
4 > The fonts are "gone" sorta -- at least to the point that makes KDE
5 > unusable.
6 >
7 >
8 > If I fire up a terminal, the window is black, but I can see that
9 > things are happening, as the cursor will move. but no text shows. if i
10 > do an 'ls' for example, i can see something 'scrolling' as the bar on
11 > the right moves, but no text is rendered. highlighting all the text in
12 > the window will reveal red/blue/etc inverse areas which i assume are
13 > directories, tarballs, etc...
14 >
15 > my clock applet is 'blank', but if i roll over it, i see the time in the
16 > bubble that pops up.
17 >
18 > most menus are blank, but I can see the underscore of where the hotkey
19 > would be. if I click on the menu, it 'blinks' very fast the text that
20 > should be there.
21 >
22 > this is the same for buttons. they show up until i roll the mouse onto
23 > them, then the text vanishes but i see the underscore.
24 >
25 > all the icons on my desktop are there, and the text under them is
26 > 'black' (like the shadow text), but the white text that used to be
27 > over the black is gone.
28 >
29 > firefox will show some text, then vanish, but if i drag/highlight all
30 > the text on the page, it comes back.
31 >
32 > Gnome works just fine -- in fact, that's how I'm typing this right now
33 > since KDE is hosed.
34 >
35 > I did an emerge update on friday and all seemed well.
36 >
37 > i use an nVidia card and i purposefully did not do the xorg-7.1 as it
38 > was a blocker with nVidia drivers.
39 >
40 > gcc-3.4.5
41 > xorg-7.0
42 > nvidia-1.0.8762
43 > kde-3.5.3
44 >
45 > kde was working fine. i had rebooted and such after the upgrade from
46 > 3.5.2 to verify.
47 >
48 > here are the last few things i emerged that could have any relevance:
49 >
50 > Fri Jun 9 01:00:22 2006 >>> kde-base/kdepim-3.5.3
51 > Fri Jun 9 01:13:50 2006 >>> kde-base/kdeartwork-3.5.3
52 > Fri Jun 9 02:02:14 2006 >>> kde-base/kdegames-3.5.3
53 > Fri Jun 9 03:03:28 2006 >>> kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5.3
54 > Fri Jun 9 03:38:41 2006 >>> kde-base/kdeaddons-3.5.3
55 > Fri Jun 9 04:58:46 2006 >>> kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.3
56 > Fri Jun 9 05:10:35 2006 >>> kde-base/kdeadmin-3.5.3
57 > Fri Jun 9 05:49:52 2006 >>> kde-base/kdewebdev-3.5.3
58 > Fri Jun 9 06:36:05 2006 >>> kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.3
59 > Fri Jun 9 07:27:37 2006 >>> kde-base/kdeedu-3.5.3
60 > Fri Jun 9 07:58:41 2006 >>> kde-base/kdeutils-3.5.3
61 > Fri Jun 9 08:04:36 2006 >>> kde-base/kdetoys-3.5.3
62 > Fri Jun 9 08:04:45 2006 >>> kde-base/kde-3.5.3
63 > Fri Jun 9 11:44:55 2006 >>> kde-base/kde-3.5.3
64 > Fri Jun 9 12:09:35 2006 >>> media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3
65 > Fri Jun 9 12:40:43 2006 >>> app-doc/xorg-docs-1.2
66 > Fri Jun 9 12:44:56 2006 >>> net-libs/libsoup-2.2.93
67 > Fri Jun 9 12:45:52 2006 >>> net-misc/neon-0.25.5
68 > Fri Jun 9 13:18:15 2006 >>>
69 > media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2_pre20060328-r9
70 > Fri Jun 9 13:18:46 2006 >>> dev-util/scons-0.96.1
71 > Fri Jun 9 13:22:01 2006 >>> app-text/poppler-0.5.3
72 > Fri Jun 9 13:23:51 2006 >>> app-text/poppler-bindings-0.5.3
73 > Fri Jun 9 13:32:07 2006 >>> gnome-base/gdm-2.14.8
74 > Fri Jun 9 14:20:25 2006 >>> sys-apps/hal-0.5.5.1-r3
75 > Fri Jun 9 14:20:29 2006 >>> gnome-extra/hal-device-manager-0.5-r1
76 > Fri Jun 9 15:29:24 2006 >>> x11-libs/libXft-2.1.10
77 > Fri Jun 9 15:30:33 2006 >>> x11-terms/xterm-207-r1
78 > Fri Jun 9 16:05:17 2006 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0
79 > Fri Jun 9 16:05:53 2006 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.1
80 > Fri Jun 9 16:06:42 2006 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2
81 > Fri Jun 9 16:07:14 2006 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.3.0
82 > Fri Jun 9 16:07:49 2006 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1
83 > Fri Jun 9 16:08:22 2006 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
84 > Fri Jun 9 16:09:04 2006 >>> x11-libs/libXcursor-1.1.7
85 > Fri Jun 9 16:09:23 2006 >>> x11-apps/mesa-progs-6.5
86 > Fri Jun 9 16:13:25 2006 >>> x11-libs/vte-0.12.2
87 > Fri Jun 9 16:13:47 2006 >>> x11-misc/xbindkeys-1.7.2-r1
88 >
89 > I read my /var/log/portage-logs and didn't notice anything that needed
90 > to be done? I also had done a revdep-rebuild but again nothing really
91 > that should effect this (mutisync and a few other peripheral apps).
92 There is a bug with xorg 7.1 && nvidia drivers
93 [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130292]. Check your xorg-server
94 && xorg-x11 versions. Try to downgrade with this package.mask --
95 http://rafb.net/paste/results/Qi773L67.html
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