Bug#692156: Wheezy upgrade. No text, no icons and no menus. PowerPC GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
On 2012-11-02 20:19 +0100, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 02:54 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>>
>> If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please
>> send it to 692156@bugs.debian.org.
>>
>
> Even though there are no menus, icons and text in X, I can start xterm
> by pressing alt+F2 and typing 'xterm'. Text is displayed fine inside the
> xterm window. 3D rendering seems to work fine. Gears of glxgears are
> displayed perfectly well. It renders 189 FPS in full screen.
Even though glxgears works fine, the 3D driver is known to cause severe
display corruption on GeForce FX 5200¹. Does it help to disable it?
E.g. run "echo LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 >> /etc/environment" and restart
your display manager to do so.
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651965
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