Re: Gnome rendering problems on framebuffer device

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:01, David Lazaro wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 22:00, Florian Boor wrote:
> > When i tried to use Gnome (2.2.0.1-1, debian sid) on my SGI 320 (x86,unaccelerated
> > framebuffer 16bit, Xfree 4.2.1.1) i noticed something strange:
> > 
> > If i setup X with correct color weight (here 556) all antialiased fonts and icons
> > are missing from gnome-panel and any other gui. Only a part of the battery monitor
> > symbol is visible. Changing the color weight to the default value 565, everything
> > look correct... shure except the colors.
> > Anyone seen this before?
> 
> This may well be a gdk-pixbuf problem.  Why don't you open a bug in
> bugzilla.gnome.org?
> 
> > I hope it is ok posting this to gnome-devel-list...
> 
> I am forwarding this to gtk-devel-list just in case my nose is right.

The anti-aliased text is all handled by the Xft library and the X 
server, so GTK+ isn't really involved.

My guess is that that the RENDER extension implementation is just buggy
for the 5-5-6 case ... nobody is going to test that much, since 5-6-5
works better and is what you typically find on PC hardware.

Regards,
                                             Owen