Comment 175 for bug 1010794

(In reply to comment #151)
> I'm pleased to report that recent changes to the Nouveau driver (I'm currently
> running git revision ace77b6) reduce the display corruption with cairo 1.12 to
> the point where the machine is usable again. However, it is not perfect: there
> are still some instances of corruption (for instance, large JPEGs are corrupted
> when downscaled to fit on the screen by Firefox) and the X server has crashed
> on me several times since I upgraded (seems to be an unrelated problem to do
> with suspend/resume).

I too have this bug. I hope it is being fixed.

Fresh install of 64 bit Debian 7.0, KDE 4.8.3 version.

For me, text corruption is worst - by far - when using Iceweasel 10.0.5 on the gmail site. Text corrupts badly every few seconds. LibreOffice Writer 3.5.4.2 also has frequent problems.

Chromium 18.0.1025.151 works on gmail with only a few corruptions.

I turned off Desktop Effects, but that made no difference.

Nvidia GT 430 card, but not using the Nvida closed driver.

Other hardware:
Dell Inspiron 530
Intel Core2 Quad processor Q8200 Yorkfield
Socket LGA775
North Bridge – Intel G33
South Bridge – ICH9
8 GB RAM

Mainboard:
Foxcon
DG33M03

Monitor:
Samsung SyncMaster 2443bwx
1920x1200