Bug#699214: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Fonts are not displayed
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
Unfortunately, upgrading xserver-xorg-video-nouveau to 1.0.6 and
installing libdrm-nouveau2-2.4.40 did not resolve the issue.
I have filed Bug 60050 upstream.
> Also, does it help to disable acceleration (boot with nouveau.noaccel=1
> to test that)?
Yes, that helped too.
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Julio Merino / @jmmv
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