Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 06:14:49 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey Message-ID: <20140108061449.93395566e2191e0d0a77cb80@embarqmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401071223090.85877@wonkity.com> References: <52CAD9CA.1020304@rainbow-runner.nl> <20140106193800.3b3dc86b878dc69453ff67f0@embarqmail.com> <52CC097E.2020402@FreeBSD.org> <20140107121229.2daf15bf61589dcc2cc4209f@embarqmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401071223090.85877@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:32:48 -0700 (MST) Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Randy Pratt wrote: > > The only artifact which is constant is a slight smearing to the right > > which can be faintly seen at http://anonpic.be/i/Mk7sP.png . > > I don't see any problems on that. But it's not clear to me exactly what > type of thing to look for. Oops.. my bad. This part turned out to be the monitor itself. I switched to another monitor and indeed it is not present. Thanks for catching this. > Firefox with the later radeon drivers occasionally bolds and blurs a > line of text that has already been rendered (maybe just re-rendering it > with an off-by-one error). These are always unrelated to the current > line of text being edited. That seemed to be something to do with the > driver, and still happened with the KMS version. > > ...Until last night, when I installed the new cairo. Have not seen it > again so far. > > > The other artifacts are intermittent and when using firefox-26.0,1. > > They are difficult to reproduce and capture. > > > > The first one of these is a random blackout of a few lines of text > > but any action that causes xorg to redraw/refresh corrects them. The > > other odd thing is that sometimes when returning to a previous page > > using the browser back button is that text will appear to be bolder. > > This too will correct itself during a refreshing of the display. > > That's the same thing I've seen, but only on Radeon cards. I didn't notice this part until a few weeks ago but I never got too far in tracking it down since I couldn't reproduce it reliably. Randy
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