From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text garbling
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:35:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sjql69c.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 838sjqbfb1.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:30:53 -0700
>>
>> Look at the exciting thing that happened to my Emacs this afternoon! A
>> few letters were switched out for other letters, and most numbers went
>> "off". This happened as I set off a list-package upgrade, switched away
>> to a different program, and then switched back.
>>
>> https://ericabrahamsen.net/garbled.jpg
>>
>> In that screenshot I'd done "C-u C-x =" on a capital "R", which was
>> displaying as a capital "P".
>>
>> I'm running Emacs master on Arch linux, using the Wayland protocol with
>> the sway window manager.
>>
>> Everything seemed to work fine (including input), just text displayed
>> wrong.
>>
>> It went away after a restart. I guess I'd be surprised if the problem
>> came back, and I'm not really expecting any bug hunting here. But I
>> thought it might be useful to log what happened. Happy to provide any
>> other information of interest.
>
> My bet is on some "optimization" feature of your video driver that is
> buggy. Upgrading or downgrading that driver might help.
Yuck, I would never have suspected that the video driver could interfere
here. I think since switching to wayland I might just be able to remove
the xf86-video-intel package, that might have something to do with it.
Thanks,
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-24 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-24 1:30 Text garbling Eric Abrahamsen
2020-03-24 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-24 4:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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