[Nouveau] missing text and icons with NV25

Jack ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 23 15:29:03 PST 2009


Hello,

I'm using nouveau xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.10_git20091101-1 and  
nouveau-drm 0.0.15_20091120-1 under Arch Linux with xorg-server  
1.7.3.901-1.  My video card is recognized as "nVidia Corporation NV25GL  
[Quadro4 750 XGL]".

X starts (with no apparent errors) but it's essentially unusable, since  
it's missing all the icons on all the panels and toolbars, and no text  
shows up at all.  For example, I can start an xterm, since I know where  
the icon is on the panel, and I can type commands, which by the cursor  
movement seem to be working correctly, but there is no visible text in  
the term.  Popups (such as right-clicking on the main window) have some  
clutter/video noise - but no text or icons.  I see no obvious error  
messages in the log or dmesg.

This seems similar to the report in Bug 14092  
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14092) but that was from  
March 2008, so I figure the fix would be in the version I'm running.

If this is a known issue, feel free to point me to the documentation  
I've obviously missed.  Otherwise, what else should I post to assist  
with troubleshooting?  (I'll defer posting even xorg.conf and the Xorg  
log until someone claims they will be of use.)

Thanks for any suggestions or assistance.

Jack


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