Bug#640464: xterm: rendering problems (pixels not erased?)

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fre, 2012-01-06 at 04:15 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: 
> On 2011-09-05 20:41:01 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > If this is new, when did it start occurring?
> 
> According to my tests, it doesn't occur with
> 
>   xorg 1:7.5+8
>   xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-4
> 
> and occurs with
> 
>   xorg 1:7.6+4
>   xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2
> 
> and later.

It would be interesting if you could try rebuilding and running the
newer driver version against the older xserver-xorg-core version (or
vice versa) and see if the problem occurs like that. That should tell us
whether the problem was introduced by a change in the driver or X
server.


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