On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-01-29 05:56 +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > >> 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 suspect this is the same problem as #692156, and it is almost surely > specific to powerpc. Could you please try version 1:1.0.6-1 from > experimental? If the bug persists with that version, please report it > upstream, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs for instructions.
Unfortunately, upgrading xserver-xorg-video-nouveau to 1.0.6 and installing libdrm-nouveau2-2.4.40 did not resolve the issue. I have filed Bug 60050 upstream. > Also, does it help to disable acceleration (boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 > to test that)? Yes, that helped too. -- Julio Merino / @jmmv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADyfeQXoZkEB=5tEe4oAv-pR=t3FyF3_6fq-3=6phftrh3p...@mail.gmail.com
