Hello Steve, I'm a bit confused, from my point of view the fix for this bug has been in Quantal since end of last November, and I had verified the fix at that time (see comments 191 - 193).
Also testing again would be a bit hard since I'm on Raring since its release and I currently don't have a partition with Quantal on my system anymore. However, if it is really necessary, I could try to test with booting from an USB stick and selectively installing the respective updates. Kind regards, Jan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010794 Title: Graphics/text corruptions in some applications with nouveau drivers Status in Accelerated Xorg driver for nVidia cards: Fix Released Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xorg-server” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “xorg-server” source package in Quantal: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” source package in Quantal: Fix Committed Status in “xorg-server” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” source package in Raring: Fix Released Bug description: For xserver-xorg-video-nouveau sru: [IMPACT] * Enables SolidFill on fermi and kepler cards, increasing performance slightly. [TESTCASE] * start ubuntu software center * hover over some urls and icons, likely corruption already occurs at this point, the more you mover over the more it shows. * This wil not fix it completely, only make it occur less, see xorg-server below for the real fix. [Regression Potential] * This should be a safe fix, since it simply enables some code which was already created specifically for these cards, and with some testing it appears to work just fine. * I expect no regressions, but in the worst case this would result in garbage being sent to the card, which may cause it to do an unexplained hang or (more likely) errors in dmesg and worse glitches since nothing is being shown any more. [Other Info] * Doing solid fill in hardware is a pretty nice speedup for those who use valgrind to test code, and also seems to increase responsitivity a little on nouveau without valgrind, since it safes 2 memcpy's on host, 2 memcpy's on gpu, and a memset. ---- For the xorg-server sru: [IMPACT] * Fallback to exa with gradients and solid pictures results in visual corruption, because sometimes the source or mark pixmaps from previous operations are used. This results in visual corruption when those fallbacks are triggered. The xxv-nouveau fix helps slightly because it disables fallback for solid fills, but gradients are still not handled so it still triggers it. [TESTCASE] * Start ubuntu software center on a geforce card that has exa acceleration enabled. * Highlight mouse over items * Notice display corruption. [Regression Potential] * The patch has been reviewed by upstream, but is not yet included (upstream can be slow). The most likely regression would be that suddenly other operations start failing to draw correctly, or worst case cause crashes but I do not think it is likely. [Other Info] See also http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg-devel@lists.x.org/msg33376.html [Original bug report] Hello, there are several serious graphic and text corruptions on Quantal with nouveau drivers (which are used by default). To reproduce: - Boot a Quantal live system or a fresh installation - Start software-center. - Move the mouse in its window or click anything. Result: Text and some graphics become massively corrupted (See also attached screenshots and short demo video). I have seen this kind of corruption so far in software-center, ubiquity-slideshow (during installation) and one time on filename text field of gtk-filechooser. Booting the system with "nomodeset" seems to make the problem go away, as well as installing the propritary Nvidia drivers. Kind regards, Jan ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20120322+ab7291d-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CurrentDmesg: [ 14.977209] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PMFB0_SUBP0: 0x037f0040 [ 14.977214] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PMFB0_SUBP1: 0x037f0000 [ 22.821303] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PFIFO: unknown status 0x40000000 [ 22.920011] eth0: no IPv6 routers present Date: Sat Jun 9 09:21:19 2012 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: quantal DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] [10de:0de1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120606.2) MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35-DS3 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=/dev/dm-5 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F13 dmi.board.name: P35-DS3 dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF13:bd07/10/2008:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP35-DS3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP35-DS3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: P35-DS3 dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu3 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu4 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu11 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.19.0-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20120322+ab7291d-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nouveau/+bug/1010794/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp