Created attachment 672438 [details] GNOME3 desktop for Nvidia NV17 using the nouveau driver Description of problem: After a fresh install of F18, the nouveau driver shows a serious regression with respect to F17: the login manager only shows unicoloured rectangles instead of icons and user names. It does react to user input when typed in blindly though. Elements of the GNOME desktop are rendered as solid rectangles in various shades of grey which allow to guess the location of panel, desktop switcher etc. It also reacts to mouse actions but it is otherwise unusable (see attached screenshot). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into graphical user mode. Actual results: GDM is barely recognizable and certainly unusable. Expected results: GDM is displayed as expected and allows to launch a working desktop session. Additional info: - GNOME used to work as of F17 evn though with glitches like transparent drop-down menu (e.g. by clicking the user name in the panel). - video device is an NVIDIA Corporation NV17GL [Quadro NVS] card with an old-style PCI bus connector. - installed packages include: * kernel-3.7.1-2.fc18.x86_64 * libdrm-2.4.40-1.fc18.x86_64 * mesa-libGL-9.0.1-3.fc18.x86_64 * xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.1-1.fc18.x86_64 - the modesetting X driver allows to recover a working desktop at the price of saturating a CPU core by merely running the GNOME shell.
Created attachment 672439 [details] X log file
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See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048607 I think that this is the same bug, but in Fedora 20
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