On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:57:49PM -0400, Ben Westover wrote: > After updating to mesa 22.2.0~rc1-1 on my 2008 Dell Precision laptop > with a Quadro FX 1700M GPU, I began experiencing artifacts [1] as soon > as lightdm started, and they still remained after launching Xfce [2]. > I also updated my Debian virtual machine in UTM on macOS, which uses > VirtIO graphics, and LightDM is just completely black there except for > a cursor. > > After updating to 22.2.0~rc2-1, the nouveau laptop's artifacts were > limited to only foreground objects, such as the login box of lightdm > [3] or the menu and panel of Xfce [4]. The virtual machine stayed the > same.
I can report the same or very similar behaviour for my setup. My machine is also an old Dell machine (Vostro 430 from early 2010), with graphics card nVidia GT218 [GeForce 310] using the nouveau driver. Best wishes, Julian
