Bug#651965: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: corrupt glyphs and icons in gnome-shell on NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
reassign 651965 libgl1-mesa-dri
found 651965 7.11.1-1
thanks
On 2011-12-13 17:36 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Version: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi nouveau folks--
>
> I'm seeing corrupted text glyphs and icons in the latest gnome-shell
> (from either unstable or experimental). I believe it's a problem with
> the nouveau driver (maybe specific to this particular model of card?)
>
> I've got a Dell Dimension 8300 with an AGP slot containing an NV34
> [GeForce FX 5200]. It's connected to an Acer AL715 monitor via VGA
> (not DVI) that apparently can't send proper EDID, but the problem
> exists when connected to monitors which support proper EDID.
>
> I've attached a screenshot of the upper taskbar of gnome-shell with
> the corrupted glyphs and icons.
>
> There was a similar report to this one that appears to have been
> mis-filed in a report about missing characters (in this case no
> characters are missing, they're just garbled) that has a screenshot
> very much like what i'm seeing (and with the same hardware):
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636874#15
>
> i've seen this problem ever since gnome3 stopped auto-selecting
> fallback mode on this system.
It's a problem with the 3D driver which we enabled by default in mesa
7.11.1-1[0]. Unfortunately, that driver is only supported on NV50+
hardware[1], because nobody is maintaining the code for older cards.
> I'm willing to do potentially drastic things on this system to debug
> if it would help fix the problem; i just don't know what would need to
> be done. Any pointers would be welcome.
You could build mesa from git master following the instructions on [2]
or [3], but I don't have much hope it will help.
Sorry for the bad news.
Cheers,
Sven
0. http://bugs.debian.org/645239
1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers
2. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumHowto
3. http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/build-mesa.html
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