[Nouveau] Text sometimes missing on NV18 based laptop

[Patrick Baggett]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> >> On my NV18 based laptop I experience artifacts related to text
> >> (however, 2D performance is really great these days):
> >> - With grayscale AA text is sometimes missing, often visible on the
> XFCE desktop
> >> - With subpixel (rgb) AA, even non-text related occur (icons are
> >> misrendered, ...)
> >>
> >> I've reported the issues here:
> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81283
> >
> > I know NV1x isn't anything spectacular or exciting to work on,
>
> The problem isn't that the hardware is old. The problem is reproducing
> the issue. Unfortunately my NV18 died (currently looking to replace
> it), but with a very plain WindowMaker + no weird anything setup, my
> recollection is that everything worked fine. And I wasn't willing to
> take the plunge and install/use gnome... perhaps I should do that next
> time with a throw-away account so that I don't mess up my stuff. I
> guess XFCE isn't as heavy though.
>

Hi Illia,

I will send you an NV18 card of your choice if you can commit to fixing
that bug.

Patrick
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