#599287 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Corrupted bitmaps on G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] (rev a1)

Package:
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Source:
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Description:
X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
Submitter:
Shachar Shemesh
Date:
2010-10-07 09:09:05 UTC
Severity:
important
#599287#5
Date:
2010-10-06 12:17:57 UTC
From:
To:
I am running on Dell Latitude E6500, with a VGA adapter with PCI ID 10de:06eb.

I have several, relatively small, corruption of bitmaps. I suspect that the pixmaps sent to the X server for storage
and display get corrupted when stored in the Xserver for too long. This is mostly visible in the flags indicator for
the current keyboard.

The problem happens whether I'm running on dual monitor or not.

After I create the xorg.conf file specifying the nouveau driver, the problem got slightly better, but did not go away.

I have been unable to test with the "nv" and "vesa" drivers, as nouveau gets loaded fairly early by the initrd, and
the other drivers refuse to load.

The proprietary nvidia drivers were never installed since the last OS clean installation.
#599287#10
Date:
2010-10-07 08:44:45 UTC
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To:
This is from the the application's icon bar, the flags indicator for the
keyboard language.

Since the switch to using xorg.conf, the corruption is MUCH more likely
to happen on dual monitor environments.