[Nouveau] Tested nouveau on a Quadro NVS 140M

[Maarten Maathuis]

2008/9/4 Sébastien Mazy <melyadon at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've just tried nouveau for the first time and I'd like to thank you
> all for your hard work. It works well, and I'm especially impressed to
> see xv running on my card (NV50 generation). Here is a brief report of
> my test.
>
> Details:
> - Card is Quadro NVS 140M
> - nouveau-drm and xf86-video-nouveau are from today's git
> - linux 2.6.26.3 from archlinux
> - X.Org X Server 1.4.99.906 (1.5.0 RC 6) from archlinux (testing repo)
> - minimalist xorg.conf attached
> - Xorg log attached
>
> What works:
> - auto-detection of my LVDS screen resolution (1680x1050)
> - 2d seems fast, scrolling in firefox isn't laggy
> - xv works \o/ unlike with nv
> - xcompmgr
>
> What doesn't:
> - "Overbold", hardly readable nautilus window title sometime
> - The character 'j' vanishes sometime in gajim (and maybe in other sometimes)
> - The character '3' looks weird sometime in gajim (and maybe in other
> softwares). See capture attached. This problem does not appear at the
> same moment as the 'j' problem.

I've seen issues with fonts turning white, but not just a single letter.
I also haven't seen your 3 issue.

> - gnome screenshot utility freezes when saving screenshots (doesn't
> affect gimp). See capture attached (not very useful, though).

Is this a seperate package (i don't want to install a whole gnome)?

> - black square in firefox instead of an image. See capture attached
> (unlike in other captures, the black square was displayed on the
> screen, I did not add it). Launching xcompmgr made the image display
> as it should (but I don't know if it's related).
> - I've lots of "[drm] PGRAPH_ERROR - nSource: PROTECTION_ERROR, nStatus:
> [drm] PGRAPH_ERROR - Ch 2/0 Class 0x502d Mthd 0x08dc Data
> 0x00000000:0x00000000" in dmesg

These errors mean something went wrong during blitting, what
precisely, i do not know.

>
>
> Please tell me if you want me to perform new tests or give more debug info.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sébastien Mazy
>
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