[Nouveau] Text sometimes missing on NV18 based laptop

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Patrick Baggett
<baggett.patrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately I can't make that guarantee. Especially since I've
already tried and was unable to reproduce. I do have a bid on a NV17
or NV18 card on ebay, so just don't outbid me for it :)

  -ilia