[Nouveau] NV34 on Fedora 17 with Mesa 8.1-devel

[mwesten]

Good day.  I'd like to inquire about the use of the latest Nouveau+Mesa 
code on a recent distribution such as Fedora 17.  I've pulled the source 
and built it, which appeared to go smoothly, but I am having issues 
during use.

glxinfo:
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV34
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-db2b6ca)

I see many of these messages:
[ 2137.524453] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:04.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: 
DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT
[ 2137.524469] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:04.0: PGRAPH - ch 3/7 class 0x0697 
mthd 0x0208 data 0x04060348

In GNOME-Shell, I'm seeing several things.  The most immediately obvious 
is the lack of a background behind the date/calendar pop-down and the 
entire user menu.  I also get a crash in gnome-control-center every time 
I try to open System Settings.

Please advise.  Thanks!