Bug 699534

Summary: Nouveau issues on Dell Latitude D620
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christopher Thielen <chris>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: chris, gbauman, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Christopher Thielen 2011-04-25 20:51:13 UTC
Description of problem:
GDM looks and works fine but when gnome-shell is loaded, the bitmaps/textures are all corrupted. I know there are a lot of bugs about nvidia/nouveau with GNOME Shell that are likely related but I wanted to add this:

At least with my particular card (whatever's in a Dell Latitude D620, I can look it up if you need), if I keep the corrupted GNOME Shell session open but kill GNOME Shell, causing it to re-launch immediately, it re-launches and the corruption is gone and all is well.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Installed F15-beta, latest updates as of 4/25/11.

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply log in.
2. To fix, kill GNOME Shell and see that corruption goes away _despite_ GNOME Shell simply launching again (e.g. does not use Metacity).
  
Actual results:
Corrupted video. Positions are correct (you can tell there's a bar across the screen, for instance) but contents are corrupt (similar to OpenGL texture corruption).

Expected results:
See gnome3.org and other beauties.

Additional info:
Killing GNOME Shell causes it to re-launch immediately, and looks correct. Perhaps there's something wrong with the way Nouveau initializes with Gnome Shell?

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 16:37:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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Comment 2 Ryan Lerch 2014-12-05 15:16:20 UTC
Are you still hitting this issue on newer versions of Fedora (Fedora 20 or Fedora 21)?

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