[Nouveau] Odd text behavior on Websites and others

[Ilia Mirkin]

No, you probably want something in /etc/X11... a lot of the time it's
split up into a bunch of separate files in like /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
or something. You should consult your distro documentation for how to
make it happen.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Rudolf Künzli <rudolf.kunzli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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