Bug#699214: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Fonts are not displayed

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2013-01-29 05:56 +0100, Julio Merino wrote:

> I installed Debian testing powerpc64 on a PowerMac G5 with a NVIDIA
> Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1) graphics card (as
> reported by lspci).
>
> Running the X server results in no fonts being displayed at all, with
> the exception of the default fixed font in xterm.  Something as simple
> as "xterm -fa Monospace" also shows the problem (a blank window with
> a cursor but no visible text), which denotes that the issue is quite
> "down the dependency chain".
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>   ineffective)?
>
> I uninstalled the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package, to force the X
> server to fallback to fbdev, and the issue went away.  The fonts are
> now properly displayed.  But, of course, this is just a workaround and
> not a solution; I'd like to use the real driver.

I suspect this is the same problem as #692156, and it is almost surely
specific to powerpc.  Could you please try version 1:1.0.6-1 from
experimental?  If the bug persists with that version, please report it
upstream, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs for instructions.

Also, does it help to disable acceleration (boot with nouveau.noaccel=1
to test that)?

Cheers,
       Sven