Re: [ft] System freeze when antialiasing is turned on

[Haakon Riiser]

David,

> given that the problem only arises when using anti-aliased
> text, I suspect that the FreeType code within the X Server
> is not the culprit.
> 
> AA text rendering is handled very differently from the
> standard X11 text model. Basically, it works as follows:
> [...]
> All of this is handled by the RENDER extension.
> 
> So, I suspect the problem to be in the RENDER extension,
> because a bug in libXft, the FreeType version used by the
> application shouldn't generate such a freeze (at worst,
> only the offending application should be locked, not the
> whole server).
> 
> Given that it seems to be a bug specific to NVidia's
> implementation, I suggest to contact them to file a
> bug report.

I hear NVIDIA can't be bothered to deal with bug reports, so I'll
just drop this issue.  I believe I mentioned that their previous
driver works fine, so I'm using it instead.

Anyway, thanks for your lucid explanation of X's font handling.

-- 
 Haakon