[nouveau] Text alpha blending is broken with nouveau

The bug does not happen with the proprietary NVIDIA driver.

Have the same troubles with nouveau. Do not have this bug on propertiary drivers and other graphic cards (such as ATI and Intel).

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I am using 12.10 with all the updates and I am still having this bug.

Maarten says:

"This might possibly be a dupe of

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55310

Quantal should have this fixed and it looks like it might be possible to SRU this to precise if it's the same bug.

Can this be reproduced on the latest quantal xxv-nouveau there? It was fixed very late in the cycle."

I've recently upgraded to 13.04 and this is still a problem for me.

just sent this mail to three of the developers i found in the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package.

now i found this bug after i know what i needed to search for (i was wondering why there was no bugreport and so i searched harder)

> Hi,
>
> i`m using a ubuntu based distro (mint) and having issues with graphics after installing it on older PC`s.
>
> icons or other graphics elements are missing, for example in the file explorer or in the xfce4 welcome screen
>
> as i have several older graphics cards, i recognized that the problem only appeared on older nvidia geforce graphics cards
>
> i spent two hours digging into this and found, that it`s a known upstream issue and resolved:
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> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51477
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> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2014-August/018271.html
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> Could you please consider including this tiny but effective fix into current supported releases, i.e. put that into xf86-video-nouveau ?
>
> I have taken a look at the source of 1.0.10 and it seems there is no need for "backporting" this fix, i.e. the fix should also work for 1.0.10 wihout to much programming effort.
>
> I think especially all users of older hardware with nvidia geforce and lighteweight ubuntu based distro like mint xfce, lubunut, xubuntu will be very happy about this...
>
> thank you!

damn, why does nobody care?

The issue with nouveau (AFAIK) is twofold:
  1. Nvidia has not provided documentation for open source developers to support all GPUs fully; and
  2. There are not enough developers working on nouveau so it lags behind even more.

you did not read this bugticket in depth, did you?

it`s not about documentation of nvidia cards and it`s not on working on nouveau - it`s about integrating an existing patch into the ubuntu trusty package !!!