[Mono-bugs] [Bug 549882] No font / text displayed in winforms on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

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User dan_keeping at hotmail.com added comment
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--- Comment #15 from Daniel Keeping <dan_keeping at hotmail.com>  2009-11-06 12:59:24 MST ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > I am having the same trouble I downloaded the latest drivers ran 
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install (as root)
> > 
> > all appeared to work ok but I do not know if and how to use the new driver as
> > the program still appears not to render any text.
> 
> "make install" places the new drivers in an incorrect directory.
> 
> Switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and execute:
> # sudo service gdm stop
> # sudo cp /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
> # sudo service gdm start
> 
> Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the driver version currently in use. It should
> say something like:
> 
>   (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.6.4, module version = 2.9.1
>         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
> 
> Switching to the new drivers solved the problem for me.

Thanks so much for this info I have not compiled much and this was exactly the
step that I was missing.

For everyone's info this driver update solved the problem for me so it would
look like the Intel driver is definitely the source of the problem.

Thanks again

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