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    Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

    Hello,

    I have a desktop running Jaunty (upgraded it from Intrepid) with an Intel integrated 910GL video card, and just after the upgrade, after logging in, I could hear the sound of KDE4 starting, but the screen was all black. Ok, plasma problem, I thought, and so I deleted ~/.kde/share/config/plasmarc and ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc . I rebooted, still nothing. So I just deleted the ~/.kde folder entirely... When I rebooted, I managed to log in to KDE4, I've got plasma alright, but every bit of text in the screen is as shown in the attached snapshot. I have tried reconfiguring the X server by

    Code:
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
    but nothing happens.

    Can anybody help me? As far as I've seen in the forums nobody seems to have the same problem and I don't even know how to look for a solution... Help

    p.s. The text inside firefox is ok, while the window titles are all screwed up. This makes me think it's a kde issue...
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    #2
    Re: Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

    Heh -- looks like you have the first version of the "runic" locale!

    OK, seriously, I've been reading about an Intel driver issue with the new Xorg 1.6:

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...l_greedy&num=1

    There's been a considerable discussion of "EXA" versus "UXA" on sidux forum. I don't happen to be running the new Xorg on an Intel graphics chip yet -- kinda afraid to try it on my Eee PC. However, on sidux forum a guy reports that using the UXA option is working well -- here is the "Device" section of his xorg.conf file:

    Code:
    Section "Device"
 Identifier "Device 0"
 Boardname "intel"
 Busid   "PCI:0:2:0"
 Driver "intel"
 Screen 0
 Option "AccelMethid" "UXA"
EndSection
    I dunno whether this is any help, but maybe it will get you started toward a solution.

    Another thing you could try is to make a Live CD of Kubuntu 9.04, and boot it, and then take a peek at the xorg.conf file (assuming you get a nice display) -- copy that one to your hard drive/system.
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      #3
      Re: Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

      Thanks dibl! I'll try this on monday as for now I don't have access to the machine... but I'll let you know how that goes
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        Re: Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

        Ok, that didn't help. I'll keep searching and I'll tell you what helps... The worst thing is since all text is screwed up, I can't even open a terminal inside kde... >
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          #5
          Re: Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

          I solved that with:
          rm -r ~/.font*

          May be it could work for you as well...
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            Re: Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

            It seems that is a qt4 issue and vertical RGB antialias, see that bug:

            https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...11/+bug/334657

            I hope it gets solved for the final version

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              Re: Video Problem / Text Ineligible - upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty

              Thanks! That was exactly it... Removing the fonts directory didn't work, but disabling the sub-pixel rendering on the font settings did the trick.
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