Bug#651965: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: corrupt glyphs and icons in gnome-shell on NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
On 2011-12-13 18:35 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-12-13 17:36 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>
>> 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.
For the record, many people have reported similar problems on NV34 in
Fedora 16¹, and the recommended workaround is not to use GNOME Shell².
Not really satisfactory. :-(
Cheers,
Sven
¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745202
² https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Graphical_corruption_in_GNOME_Shell_.28and_other_3D-accelerated_applications.29_with_NVIDIA_GeForce_FX_5200_adapters
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