Bug 252924

Summary: Font artifacts with Xorg on i386
Product: Base System Reporter: Deposite Pirate <dpirate>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-x11 (Nobody) <x11>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: zeising
Priority: ---    
Version: 12.2-STABLE   
Hardware: i386   
OS: Any   

Description Deposite Pirate 2021-01-22 22:24:03 UTC 
Since I upgraded from 12.1 to 12.2 through freebsd-update font artifacts with Xorg have appeared. More precisely, characters are randomly missing in for example Conky, when loading web pages with NetSurf, WindowMaker menus or the i3 bar. I have booted a Haiku live CD to check whether this problem was reproducible with it so as to rule out a malfunctioning video card. There are no font problems with Haiku or any other display problems.

This machine is an AMD Athlon 2800+ with an EPoX EP-8RDA nForce2 motherboard and the video card is a Radeon 9600 PRO.
Comment 1 Niclas Zeising freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-07-26 17:25:20 UTC 
When you updated from 12.1 to 12.2, did you update ports at the same time?

Unfortunately, i386 is quite old, and support for it is best effort from a graphics support standpoint.  Does it work better on 13.0?
Comment 2 Niclas Zeising freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-07-26 17:25:45 UTC 
Which version of drm-kmod and drm-fbsd12.0-kmod are you using?