Bug#692156: Wheezy upgrade. No text, no icons and no menus. PowerPC GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
On 2012-11-02 21:21 +0100, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 03:30 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2012-11-02 20:19 +0100, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> No. It does not help. Text, icons and menus are still not displayed at
> all.
Too bad. :-(
> LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 degraded 3D rendering performance to 13 FPS
> in full screen.
That's to be expected.
> Just want to note that I had working wheezy desktop machine which got
> unusable after 'apt-get upgrade'. Can we get the same default
> functionality we had before the upgrade?
If somebody figures out the root of the bug and finds a solution,
certainly. I suspect some endianness problem, since it would have been
reported earlier if it occured on x86 as well.
Meanwhile, either disable acceleration (boot with nouveau.noaccel=1) or
downgrade to version 1:0.0.16+git20120322+ab7291d-1.
Cheers,
Sven
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