Fedora 9 beta no fonts on intel x3100 laptop

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 16:37:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:15 +0100, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've downloaded the Fedora 9 beta and created a bootable usb stick to
> test it out on some systems.
> It works fine on my desktop with radeon graphics so I assume the usb
> stick is ok.
> However, on a laptop with Intel x3100 graphics, X doesn't display
> fonts and icons (it draws rough outlines of where the windows are
> supposed to be and I can log in by clicking the right places). This is
> the same in rhgb, gdm and on the desktop. Fedora 8 works fine on this
> laptop.
> Is anyone able to confirm if this is an issue with all x3100 systems?

Looks like Nicu has seen the same thing:
http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-struggles-with-f9-beta.html

The comments suggest that this only happens on the Live image, and you
can make it work right by booting with "xdriver=vesa".

-w
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