Bug#651965: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: corrupt glyphs and icons in gnome-shell on NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
Hi Daniel!
> I'm seeing corrupted text glyphs and icons in the latest gnome-shell
> (from either unstable or experimental). I believe it's a problem with
> the nouveau driver (maybe specific to this particular model of card?)
I have been playing around with an old PowerMac G5 which I borrowed as
a PPC porterbox and it happens to have this particular video adapter
as well.
Initially, I installed Debian Wheezy onto the Mac and ran into many
rendering issues with nouveau and gnome-shell and the latter happened
to crash very often.
However, upgrading everything to unstable resolved both the rendering
issues as well as the gnome-shell crashes. I think Mesa upstream fixed
many nouveau issues in the newer Mesa releases, so you should definitely
give that a try in case you still have this machine around, so we might
be able to close this bug ;).
Additionally, it would be interesting to know whether 3D hardware
acceleration works on your laptop 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).
Cheers across the big lake ;)
Adrian
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