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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package

  1. Bug #1010794
  2. Comment #63

Comment 63 for bug 1010794

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In , Michel Dänzer (michel-daenzer) wrote :

(In reply to comment #39)
> As a side note: I don't remember that it was any "good" xorg/driver versions,
> but that issue has happened at first only with cairo built with
> --enable-xlib-xcb.

So, does it only happen when using Cairo's new XCB backend?

> So I don't know what exactly I should downgrade/bisect.

Yeah, it's getting rather unlikely that this is a regression. The Cairo changes probably just exposed an existing bug.

(In reply to comment #37)
> Also, as I noted in the Gentoo bug, workaround from bug 43764 ('Option
> "EXAPixmaps" "false"'), seems to work.

Unfortunately, that doesn't narrow it down very much at all, as that's a pretty big hammer which prevents using the GPU for most operations.

I presume Option "EXANoComposite" works around the problem as well?