Nouveau - Jul 2008 - [Bug 16815] New: losing fonts in gnome-terminal and other font weirdnesses

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16815

           Summary: losing fonts in gnome-terminal and other font
                    weirdnesses
           Product: xorg
           Version: git
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: debian at oursours.net
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Created an attachment (id=17832)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17832)
my xorg.conf

losing fonts in gnome-terminal and other font weirdnesses

Using a NV86, nouveau/master, nouveau/drm/gallium and xserver 1.4.2.
losing fonts in gnome-terminal and firefox adress bar after a while
I used to have problem with fonts, but it was fixed with commit
022a9ed5c2657466dd2471a1b29d5e8bc92ca57a "nv50: no more sync in composite()
:)".

Now I'm observing that gnome-terminal is slightly loosing fonts over the
time.
Let me explain.

At first, the display is all correct, but after a few hours, text is beginning
to disappear. I noticed that the colored text is the more likely to disappear
first. Selecting the text may help to see the characters. A new gnome-terminal
opened (window not tab) does not have this problem, while the other remains
"ill".

I'm using gnome and the option "Composite" is enable in xorg.conf.

I found out that running "xcompmgr" is 90% of the time fixing the
problem.

Another symptom: the Python TK interpreter, "idle" is all scrambled
(screenshot
to attach).

In metacity windows, the titlebar sometimes goes like bold. It seems like the
same text is written twice with a slight shift. I attach a screenshot as soon
as it appears.

In firefox, the text of the address bar is disappearing (or turning white?)
when firefox is open for a while. Sometimes the text of the user interface
(which is more or less a Gnome application thanks to integration) is turning
white. It generally comes back by itself after a moment (or when redrawing the
screen?).


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--- Comment #1 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-23
03:08:41 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=17833)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17833)
the idle window is supposed to show some brief information and the python
prompt


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--- Comment #2 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-23
03:33:55 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=17834)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17834)
The terminal started to misbehave after a dozen of minutes


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--- Comment #3 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-23
03:35:32 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=17835)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17835)
screen corruption while preparing the previous capture

Notice the yellow and black stripes.


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--- Comment #4 from Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>  2008-07-23
03:51:12 PST ---
idle looks ok for me, but looks different than yours (i'll include a
screenshot). What card do you have exactly?


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--- Comment #5 from Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>  2008-07-23
03:51:45 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=17836)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17836)
a screenshot of idle


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--- Comment #6 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-23
03:58:52 PST ---
The commercial name is "8400M GS".

"lspci -n" gives "01:00.0 0300: 10de:0427 (rev a1)".


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--- Comment #7 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-23
04:06:32 PST ---
$ sudo nvclock -i
Xlib:  extension "NV-CONTROL" missing on display ":0.0".
-- General info --
Card:           nVidia Geforce 8400M GS
Architecture:   G86 A2
PCI id:         0x427
GPU clock:      216.000 MHz
Bustype:        PCI-Express

-- Shader info --
Clock: 432.000 MHz
Stream units: 16 (1b)
ROP units: 4 (1b)
-- Memory info --
Amount:         128 MB
Type:           128 bit DDR3
Clock:          351.000 MHz

-- PCI-Express info --
Current Rate:   16X
Maximum rate:   16X

-- Sensor info --
Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor
GPU temperature: 67C


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--- Comment #8 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-23
04:08:17 PST ---
herve at xiong:~ $ x11perf -aa10text
x11perf - X11 performance program, version 1.2
The X.Org Foundation server version 10402000 on :0.0
from xiong
Wed Jul 23 13:07:02 2008

Sync time adjustment is 0.0435 msecs.

 320000 reps @   0.0173 msec ( 57700.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter
10)
 320000 reps @   0.0174 msec ( 57600.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter
10)
 320000 reps @   0.0177 msec ( 56400.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter
10)
 320000 reps @   0.0175 msec ( 57300.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter
10)
 320000 reps @   0.0174 msec ( 57600.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter
10)
1600000 trep @   0.0175 msec ( 57300.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter
10)


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Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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  Attachment #17833|0                           |1
        is obsolete|                            |




--- Comment #9 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-24
00:47:00 PST ---
(From update of attachment 17833)
Idle is fixed!

I know have the same output as yours.


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Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net> changed:

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        is obsolete|                            |




--- Comment #10 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-24
00:49:14 PST ---
(From update of attachment 17835)
I've been playing with the gimp but couldn't be able to reproduce theses
glitches.


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Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net> changed:

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        is obsolete|                            |




--- Comment #11 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-25
02:00:41 PST ---
(From update of attachment 17834)
I think I don't experience these anymore. Though I'll reopen it in any
case.


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--- Comment #12 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-25
02:03:36 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=17881)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17881)
glyph corruption in a terminal

Now the glyphs are affected. Generally a single one. Not always the same, in
different applications like gnome-terminal or openoffice.org.


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--- Comment #13 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-07-25
02:05:06 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=17882)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17882)
Example in OOo

After reducing and restoring the window, the screen was repainted and the
letter N was correct.


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Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #14 from Herv? Cauwelier <debian at oursours.net>  2008-12-04
13:40:09 PST ---
I close this bug fixed since this summer.


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