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

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2012-01-09 11:36 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> 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

This is not really possible, because xserver 1.8 has been required by
the driver since 2010-10-22 (commit a4d580bf05d).

> (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.

I'm not sure if this will work out either, at least cherry-picking
commit 964eeac6dc2 is probably necessary.

Cheers,
       Sven