Fresh 9.04 installation and after a few minutes all fonts are garbage

[darge0flex]

As the title says I've installed ubuntu 9.04 on a fresh system (ibm thinkpad x30). Everything was fine, but after a few minutes the fonts looks more and more like black boxes. After that I've rotate between the different fonts-drawing-method's without any effect. Of course it looks best when I choose just black and white without any anti-aliasing of the fonts (look at the second screenshot). But, as you can see, in firefox are also the icons wrong.

I dont know what the reason could be. Maybe someone else here had made similar experiences?

And as I sayd it: this is a absolutly fresh installed ubuntu 9.04 without any backuped settings from an old installation.

[jpopol]

Hi there !

I had this problem as well 3 months ago when I installed Debian on my X30.

To fix this problem you just have to edit your xorg.conf file:

sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.confand add in the "Device" section:

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"By default the Acceleration Method is EXA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXA), and was designed to replace XFree86 Acceleration Architecture.

Hope this will help !