#772899 /usr/bin/Xorg: font corruption in iceweasel (firefox)

Package:
xserver-xorg-core
Source:
xorg-server
Description:
Xorg X server - core server
Submitter:
Michal Suchanek
Date:
2014-12-12 01:45:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#772899#5
Date:
2014-12-12 01:40:10 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

rendering fonts tends to create broken glyphs ocasionally. It seems to
be observed mostly on Radeon cards.

Reportedly this is possibly fixed or at least mitigated with X server 1.17.0 RC 1.

Upstream bug is here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85864

Please consider importing newer X server at least in experimental.

Thanks

Michal