Bug#683242: Fwd: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Text rendering glitches on Nvidia 525M

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Control: reassign -1 xorg-server
Control: forcemerge 666468 -1

On 2012-11-05 23:31 +0100, Paris Liakos wrote:

> On 11/05/2012 06:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2012-11-05 00:04 +0100, Paris Liakos wrote:
>>
>>> I updated libcairo to latest version in sid repos and
>>> xserver-xorg-core to the version mentioned above text scrambling with
>>> black glitches as described above is fixed but now there is another
>>> problem.
>>> Now text doesnt render at all? Before it was invisible and was
>>> restored if window was moved/resized. Now it cant be restored even if
>>> resized:/
>>> In terminal i have to get the cursor over each letter to make it
>>> appear (background changes from black to white on cursor) and on
>>> chromium the tabs have no titles:/
>> Yes, that happened because the wrong patch was applied in
>> xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.4-2.  Can you please upgrade to 2:1.12.4-3 and
>> retry?
>>
>>> Should i open a new bug?
>> No, that's not necessary.  Thanks for your help, and sorry for the
>> inconvenience.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>         Sven
>
> Just upgraded two NVIDIA machines to latest xserver-xorg-core and
> libcairo2 and everything is back to normal!

Thanks for confirming that the Xserver update fixes the problem, I'm
merging the bug with #666468 and its two dozen duplicates.

Cheers,
       Sven