Bug#651965: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: corrupt glyphs and icons in gnome-shell on NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2013-10-21 08:21 +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On 10/20/2013 05:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
>> after upgrading to the Mesa
>> version in experimental (9.2.1-1). I figured out that after upgrading
>> to 9.2.1-1, Mesa could no longer load the nouveau_dri.so module
>> which I could resolve by downgrading libgl1-mesa-dri to 9.1.7-1
>> again (I didn't have to downgrade the rest of Mesa).
>
> What would be the best way to go about testing and reporting whether 3D
> hardware acceleration works or does not work in this case?

Install libgl1-mesa-dri from experimental.  If you then get the error
message "libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau" when running
OpenGL programs, please read bug #724576 (which I cannot reproduce,
BTW).

Cheers,
       Sven