Bug 746826

Summary: artifacts and font problems in gnome 3 desktop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark Wilson <mark.wilson>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: airlied, ajax, antonio.montagnani, awilliam, bskeggs, escherdragon, mclasen, rstrode
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Mark Wilson 2011-10-17 21:09:40 UTC
Created attachment 528654 [details]
screenshot showing artifacts and fonts problem

Description of problem:
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artifacts are seen on the screen and fonts are scrambled
in gnome 3. see screenshots below

my system is using the nouveau driver with a GeForce FX 5200 nvidia card


the default screen resolution given by nouveau is 1024x768
(though the monitor is capable of 1400x900)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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fedora 16, beta fresh install with all updates as of 16/10/2011
for i686 version

How reproducible:
always happens on login to fedora 16 beta

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot
2. login to fedora
3. view screen
  
Actual results:
scrambled fonts/artifacts on screen

Expected results:
clear text and icons

Additional info: see screenshots

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-10-24 19:49:48 UTC
This looks like a driver problem to me

Comment 2 antonio montagnani 2011-11-17 18:27:05 UTC
Bug 753394 - Severe display corruption in gnome-shell (KDE works)

I think that it is the same bug, additional info in that bug filed by me

Comment 3 José A. Romero L. 2011-11-18 20:51:22 UTC
Adding the following script to the start-up programs (gnome-session-properties) helps a bit. Artifacts *will* appear again, though:

#------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

STARTED=`grep -i "GNOME Shell started" ~/.xsession-errors`
while [ -z "$STARTED" ]
do
    sleep 1
    STARTED=`grep -i "GNOME Shell started" ~/.xsession-errors`
done

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings active false
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
sleep 1
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings active true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
#------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
--
José A. Romero L.
escherdragon at gmail

Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2011-12-06 23:31:51 UTC
Another 745202, looks like.



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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 745202 ***