video card?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2016, 08:47 +0000 schrieb thufir:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:16:56 -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 
> 
> > It's probably NOT your fonts. It's probably a bug in the video driver,
> > as Oliver Grawert pointed out.
> > 
> > Try a Google search for "Ubuntu Intel 82915G/GV/910GL" and you will see
> > other complaints.
> 
> 
> Will do.  The oddity is that it used to work fine with Ubuntu version ??, 
> but the pc was sitting for a while, so just seemed odd.
> 
> If it's a bug with the driver, wouldn't it get *better* with newer 
> versions of the OS, and not *worse*?  Hopefully, at least..
sadly not ... graphics card vendors have a tendency to leave old
hardware behind at a certain point ... intel specifically changed the
rendering method from UXA to SNA recently, a standard not all hardware
will work with but one that their driver defaults to in newer releases.
(you can simply override such things with a minimal xorg.conf snippet)

ciao
	oli