Bug#680306: How have you managed to do that?
On 2012-07-05 18:58 +0200, Douglas Mencken wrote:
>> Alternatively, just install the package from testing. It is not really
>> usable, however [1,2].
>
> You didn't get the idea. That commit
> (ab7291d368ddc66ad21c5ad5caa0faeee42ccaf1) works absolutely perfectly
> on my side, with full 2D and 3D acceleration, w/o any gotchas, w/o any
> artifacts, etc. But if it is build from "vanilla" git, w/o any
> 02-drm-nouveau-newabi.patch you mentioned. Works absolutely fine, as
> it was for a long time when I used debian's packages for this and
> before I met "no text, no icons..." issue.
Nice that it works for you. It doesn't work for me and for many (most?)
other people, though.
>> Won't happen in Wheezy, 8.1 release is still months away and Debian is
>> frozen already.
>
> Okay, that's your rules, your bureaucracy.
>
>> The 3D driver for your card is indeed known to be broken, but we cannot
>> easily disable it since it's in the same file as the working ones.
>
> Known to be broken?
There are lots of artifacts on NV30 cards, especially on the popular
NV34 (GeForce FX 5200/5500)[1]. On NV40, which you seem to have, it
probably works better.
> Then why I haven't any response to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679127 in ~2 weeks?
Presumably because you did not use reportbug, so nobody could figure out
what the problem is. BTW, the logs you finally sent don't contain
anything suspicious.
>> Try disabling AIGLX (see xorg.conf(5)), or, if that does not help,
>> enforce software rendering, e.g. with
>>
>> # echo LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 >> /etc/environment
>
> Well, it shall be the first step if anybody will get "no text, no
> icons...". And as I already said, it can also be done via
> ``nouveau.noaccel=1'' in kernel arg's line.
This is not the same, because it disables 2D acceleration as well. That
way you cannot find out whether the problem is in the 2D driver alone or
in the interaction with the 3D driver (AIGLX).
>>> Can you just build it correctly, at least?..
>>
>> What do you mean by that?
>
> Well, can you just deny that "preventing-linking-with" patch for at
> least for PowerPC?
No. You can, however, build libdrm from git master or the 2.4.37
release, and link xf86-video-nouveau from git master or the 1.0.1
tarball against it.
> P.S.: that Nouveau's dev also told me a lot about smth called "DDX"
> and that it is the actual issue. Hope this can help too.
The DDX is the 2D driver, i.e. this very package.
Cheers,
Sven
1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651965
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