reassign 651965 libgl1-mesa-dri found 651965 7.11.1-1 thanks On 2011-12-13 17:36 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > Version: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi nouveau folks-- > > 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've got a Dell Dimension 8300 with an AGP slot containing an NV34 > [GeForce FX 5200]. It's connected to an Acer AL715 monitor via VGA > (not DVI) that apparently can't send proper EDID, but the problem > exists when connected to monitors which support proper EDID. > > I've attached a screenshot of the upper taskbar of gnome-shell with > the corrupted glyphs and icons. > > There was a similar report to this one that appears to have been > mis-filed in a report about missing characters (in this case no > characters are missing, they're just garbled) that has a screenshot > very much like what i'm seeing (and with the same hardware): > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636874#15 > > i've seen this problem ever since gnome3 stopped auto-selecting > fallback mode on this system. It's a problem with the 3D driver which we enabled by default in mesa 7.11.1-1[0]. Unfortunately, that driver is only supported on NV50+ hardware[1], because nobody is maintaining the code for older cards. > I'm willing to do potentially drastic things on this system to debug > if it would help fix the problem; i just don't know what would need to > be done. Any pointers would be welcome. You could build mesa from git master following the instructions on [2] or [3], but I don't have much hope it will help. Sorry for the bad news. Cheers, Sven 0. http://bugs.debian.org/645239 1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers 2. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumHowto 3. http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/build-mesa.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
