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 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52644d55.9040...@physik.fu-berlin.de
