Bug#683242: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1.0.3 seems better

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-10-27 02:33 +0200, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> 
> > Just as an extra data point (and I'm not sure this is the only bug this
> > is appropriate for as there are several cairo2/nouveau related bugs) I
> > recently built an xserver-xorg-video-nouveau based off the 1.0.3
> > upstream release and have found it to significantly improve things on my
> > Quadro 2000M [GF106]. There are several EXA related fixed since 1.0.2.
> 
> I have contemplated cherry-picking some or all of them, but recently
> somebody reported a regression[1] on the Nouveau mailing list.  This
> should probably be investigated first.

Fair enough. I use Virtual Box on my system, but not with the 3D
acceleration enabled. I haven't noticed any issues with 1.0.3, either in
Virtual Box, nor any of the text corruptions on the host I saw with
1.0.1-3.

J.

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