[Nouveau] Odd text behavior on Websites and others

Rudolf Künzli rudolf.kunzli at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 09:57:32 PDT 2015


I checked for all kind of conf files in /etc/...
I can't figure out where the configuration file is placed.
I found some for keyboard configuration...
The Fedora 22 Installation Guide and the Release Notes don't reveal the
necessary informations.
I feel lost a little bit...
I look further
 
-- 
Rudolf Künzli <rudolf.kunzli at gmail.com>
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 11:42 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> 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


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