Garbled fonts if anti-aliasing is turned off

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horrible font rendering

Note that when you hover the mouse over the garbled text it returns into a
readable text. The problem is not isolated to firefox and seem to happen almost
every time an application writes more than a paragraph of text.

It looks OK here with smoothing turned off via GNOME preferences

It looks OK for me too on my other computer also running Breezy. That computer
has a Radeon 9600 video card with the "radeon" and "fglrx" video drivers. On
this computer, with a Quadro FX 330 video card and the "nvidia" driver, I get
the garbage shown in the screenshot. In 5.04 non-anti-aliased fonts rendered
good on both computers.

Does changing the values with sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig help?

(In reply to comment #4)
> Does changing the values with sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig help?

No it doesn't. Nothing seem to help except to enable anti-aliasing. Note also
that it is only non-fixed width fonts that gets rendered erratically like in the
screenshot. Maybe it is a pango/cairo issue since that is the major thing that
has changed between 5.04 and 5.10.

I tested changing the driver from "nvidia" to "nv" and that solved the problem. Previously the Device section was:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro FX 330]"
 Driver "nvidia"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
 Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
        #Option "NvAGP" "1"
 Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

The only thing i changed was replacing "nvidia" with "nv" and that solved it! I still think this bug needs to be fixed though so I changed the Status from Needinfo to Confirmed. I hope noone minds.

guessing package

Similar problems are bug 37525 and bug 33792

As manu mentions, this bug is a duplicate of bug 33792.

I'm also changing the package to the correct one. (linux-restricted-modules)