Comment 203 for bug 251107

jackie999

see the comment above from daveh which I copy here:

To those of you who, like me, have had text rendering problems with 96.43.09 drivers I have some good news.
The good people at Compiz-Fusion have just advised me that adding:

Option "RenderAccel" "0" to the Device section of xorg.conf will solve this problem.

For me it has at last resolved all issues.

I believe nvidia see this as a workaround that may slow 2D drawing so they have suggested the alternative of reverting instead to version 96.43.07.

But this simple mod to xorg has been the solution for me.

If it works for you it will help all if you let us know here.

Good luck.

See if this solves your problem. I had the same issue and it solved mine.