Font corruption

Hello everyone,
since a long time, I've been experiencing slight font corruption in Gecko powered applications (Firefox/Thunderbird), that were going away when highlighting the culprit characters. Lately I've been getting it, except that it's worse, doesn't go away (I suspect the new GTK or kernel) and happened in Geany too.
Xorg logs don't have any errors and dmesg only show
radeon 0000:01:00.0: Packet0 not allowed!
repeatidly. The issue doesn't seems to be a hardware problem since it only happens with specific applications. I tried switching from Glamor to EXA, without success and memtest86 says that my RAM is okay.
Using radeonSI with an AMD radeon R9 280X (7970).
A picture of the problem.
http://a.pomf.se/csjdmz.png
Thanks for your attention.
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Last edited by Trilby (2014-10-28 12:48:47)

I would try disabling "damage" in xorg, e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-damage.conf, containing:
Section "Extensions"
Option "DAMAGE" "False"
EndSection

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