Bug#679120: libdrm-nouveau1a: text corruption using nouveau (not with video, images or 3d)
Package: libdrm-nouveau1a
Version: 2.4.33-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Using nouveau with multiple monitors (although I don't think that it is related
to that)
Text very frequently gets corrupted, but images, video and 3d are not affected.
This mostly occurs when using iceweasel and gnome-terminal, but evolution is
also affected.
When this happens, selecting the text or scrolling so it leaves the visible
screen, appears to re-render it with the effect that the distortion changes,
making it readable from time to time. When taking a screenshot, the corruption
dissapears, but might re-appear after the text left the visible screen (a
window that comes over it or scrolling.
It doesn't occur with all text, usually only part of a sentence or a couple of
lines. Good text can get corrupted again after selecting affected text.
The problem doesn't occur when using the nvidia binary blob.
My graphics card is a GForce 9800 GT. It also doesn't occur on my laptop with a
GF8400M GS card.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libdrm-nouveau1a depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libdrm2 2.4.33-1
ii multiarch-support 2.13-33
libdrm-nouveau1a recommends no packages.
libdrm-nouveau1a suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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