[Nouveau] Text sometimes missing on NV18 based laptop

[Giulio Pavia]

2014-07-23 16:41 GMT+02:00 Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>:

> 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.
>

I have an nv 17 too (now using lxle 12.04 with nvidia last binary).

With lxde desktop, even lighter than xfce, you should be able to find out
the problems easily. Screenshots in bug 51477 .

Thank you.
-- 
Giulio
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