Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I installed Debian testing powerpc64 on a PowerMac G5 with a NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1) graphics card (as reported by lspci). Running the X server results in no fonts being displayed at all, with the exception of the default fixed font in xterm. Something as simple as "xterm -fa Monospace" also shows the problem (a blank window with a cursor but no visible text), which denotes that the issue is quite "down the dependency chain". * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I uninstalled the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package, to force the X server to fallback to fbdev, and the issue went away. The fonts are now properly displayed. But, of course, this is just a workaround and not a solution; I'd like to use the real driver. I also attempted to downgrade libxft and libfreetype6 to older versions (libfreetype6_2.4.2-2.1+squeeze4_powerpc.deb and libxft2_2.1.14-2_powerpc.deb) but this did not help. The graphics driver seems to be at fault here. * Logs and screenshot depicting the problem: http://www.NetBSD.org/~jmmv/g5-no-fonts/Xorg.log-with-nouveau http://www.NetBSD.org/~jmmv/g5-no-fonts/Xorg.log-without-nouveau http://www.NetBSD.org/~jmmv/g5-no-fonts/dmesg http://www.NetBSD.org/~jmmv/g5-no-fonts/screenshot.jpg -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nouveau depends on: ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libdrm2 2.4.40-1~deb7u2 ii libudev0 175-7 ii xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-12] 2:1.12.4-4 Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nouveau recommends: ii libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.5-3 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
