[Nouveau] missing text and icons with NV25

[Xavier]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2009.12.24 04:12, Xavier wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> It looks like some updates just hit, so I now have xf86-video-nouveau
> 0.0.10_git20091221-1 and nouveau-drm 0.0.15_20091220-1 with kernel26
> 2.6.32.2-2 and xorg-server 1.7.3.902-1.  Missing icons and fonts, and some
> apparent screen corruption as I'm exiting X.
>
> I still have to enable getting newer packages from testing, but these still
> give the same problem.  I suppose I could also set up to compile from git,
> if necessary to test bleeding edge or specific patches.
>
>>> 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.
>>> ....
>
>> 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
>
> Post here?  As attachments or inline?  (dmesg is just under 500 lines and
> Xorg log is just under 400.)
>
> I don't have much of an xorg.conf, but even with the minimal one I get the
> same behavior.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

Either attach here, or maybe open a new bug report and add the
attachments there :
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage#Bugs