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Hm. Interesting. Using binary graphics drivers (nvidia et al)? Maybe something corrupted memory. Did it survive even a restart?

• icebraining 15y ago
  I'm using the OSS radeon drivers and no, fortunately it was fine after a reboot :) Corrupted memory was my first thought, but affecting only text is odd - I mean, the drivers aren't even supposed to know those particular pixels are text, right?
  • chris_wot 15y ago
    In Firefox 12, if I click on the View menu and leave the menu open for a while, it turns into some sort of odd colour gradient. Interesting bug... can anyone else reproduce this?
  • entropy_ 15y ago
    Not necessarily, no, I think graphic cards are aware that certain things are text. For example, I have a thinkpad t400 with two graphic cards(ATI and intel), on the ATI the text in consoles is not anti-aliased, but on the intel one it is. So I'm pretty sure that the graphic card(or at least the drivers) are aware of what is text and what is not to some extent