[Nouveau] missing text and icons with NV25

[Xavier]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2009.12.30 15:21, Jack wrote:
>>
>> On 2009.12.24 04:12, Xavier wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> .....
>>
>> It looks like some updates just hit arch, 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.
>>
>> >> ....
>
> I've attached dmesg and Xorg.log.  However, I just noticed these two lines
> in dmesg:
>   X:1411 conflicting memory types d8000000-d8010000
> uncached-minus<->write-combining
>   reserve_memtype failed 0xd8000000-0xd8010000, track uncached-minus, req
> uncached-minus
> and I see this error was mentioned in posts here on 11 and 13 December.  I
> don't know if it's relevant, but I point it out to save time, just in case.
>
> xorg.conf is just
>  Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "nvidia"
>        Driver      "nouveau"
>  EndSection
>
> I'll be glad to file as a new bug, but I want to be sure first that I'm not
> simply missing something obvious.
>

There are many people who know much more than me here, but I do not
see anything suspicious in your logs, and I don't think I heard of
similar issues before.
It might be better to report a new bug, it probably has less chances
to be forgotten than just a mail.