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

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60050

On 2013-01-30 03:49 +0100, Julio Merino wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Thanks.

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

If you need a driver with working acceleration, look on
snapshot.debian.org[1] until your bug is resolved.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120501T222053Z/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.16%2Bgit20120322%2Bab7291d-1_powerpc.deb