I was trying for months to get my Dell Latitude XT, containing an ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 GPU to render the gnome-shell aka gnome3 without cluttered fonts in the panel.
I tried various versions and patches, but all one has to do is patch the mesa package with this patch:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=46709
I got it from here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35998
Since I do not really know what I do and I have problems to upload it to AUR, I post the description here in case someone has similar problems.
THIS GUIDE IS FOR ARCH LINUX USERS WITH A RADEON R200 GPU AND PROBLEMS WITH FONTS IN GNOME-SHELL
- Install the ArchBuildSystem abs "sudo pacman -S abs base-devel"
- Install missing dependancies "sudo pacman -S flex bison"
- Copy the pkgbuild to tmp "cp -r /var/abs/extra/mesa /tmp/"
- goto the directory "cd /tmp/mesa"
- download the sources "makepkg -o"
- edit the file according to the patch ("gedit src/?esa-*/src/gallium/drivers/r300/r300_texture_desc.c") go to the lines with {{32,1 and {{8,1 and change them to {{32,2 and {{8,2
- build the package "makepkg -e"
- drink a cup of coffe
- install all the packages you need (try sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz and see which packages are displayed as reinstall, cancel and then run pacman -U <all packages which were displayed as reinstall>
- restart
For the Ubuntu Guys: If you have the same problem, there is a mechanism for dpkg to get source packages and recompile. Just google it and apply the patch.
