[Nouveau] missing text and icons with NV25

[Xavier]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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]".
>

I am not sure there has been a lot of changes for nv25, but 1-2 months
can be a lot in nouveau development.
You should try newer packages first. Btw arch has up-to-date nouveau
packages in testing (built for kernel 2.6.32 also in testing). They
should move soon but you can always try them now.

> 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.
>

If newer packages do not work, you should definitely post dmesg and Xorg log.
About xorg.conf , if you have a complex one, you could try with a
minimalistic one first.
See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau
or http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau#Configuration