[Nouveau] Odd text behavior on Websites and others

Rudolf Künzli rudolf.kunzli at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 08:38:24 PDT 2015


Thanks - the only xorg.conf I found is -
 /usr/share/abrt/conf.d/plugins/xorg.conf
Is this the file to be edited?

-- 
Rudolf Künzli <rudolf.kunzli at gmail.com>
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 10:56 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Rudolf Künzli <
> rudolf.kunzli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > GeForce GTX 745 is a NVIDIA card in the NV117 (GM107) Family...
> > The update was made using DNF (Yum) in my daily update procedure 
> > using
> > the Fedora 22 Update repository.
> > I am not familiar with details I just can report what happens right
> > now...
> 
> OK, there's no EXA support for maxwell, so you're using glamor. 
> Before
> kernel 4.1, unless you had extracted your own ctxsw firmware, you
> didn't have acceleration at all, that was likely the change that
> triggered the issue.
> 
> The glamor integration in nouveau is, sadly, broken. But it's unclear
> whether that's the cause of your issue. You can either add
> 
> Option "NoAccel" "true"
> 
> to the device section in your xorg.conf, which will disable 2d
> acceleration and bring you back to the same state you were in before,
> or you can add
> 
> Driver "modesetting"
> 
> (or uninstall xf86-video-nouveau) which will use the modesetting
> driver which has a non-broken glamor integration. You may still get
> the same issues though, as they could just be generic
> mesa-sucks-on-maxwell issues (I don't have a Maxwell GPU, no one else
> has been interested in debugging/fixing issues).
> 
>   -ilia


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