Bug 60993

Summary: Double-inverted picture (but letters just upside-down)
Product: Mesa Reporter: lockheed <qwrules>
Component: Drivers/DRI/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: blocker    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description lockheed 2013-02-17 09:14:03 UTC 
I installed nouveau drivers to replace nvidia, but now when desktop starts, everything is inverted vertically AND horizontally, which gives a very weird effect (apart from being unusable).
Interestingly, cursor is not being inverted at all and order of letters remains left->right, but they are inverted upside-down...


Photograph: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=x6hmw3&s=6
demsg:      http://pastebin.com/jthDiD1y
xorg.log:   http://pastebin.com/DdMXWePz

Arch Linux 64bit, newest drivers, NVIDIA G86 [Quadro NVS 140M]
Comment 1 lockheed 2013-02-17 09:15:50 UTC 
I am also using compiz and emerald.
Comment 2 Roy 2013-02-17 11:02:08 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I am also using compiz and emerald.

The problem probably disappears when you use metacity instead of Compiz. Try reinstalling mesa*, I suspect you have some leftovers from the "official" driver on your system.
Comment 3 lockheed 2013-02-19 08:42:40 UTC 
>>> The problem probably disappears when you use metacity instead of Compiz. Try reinstalling mesa*, I suspect you have some leftovers from the "official" driver on your system.

You were correct. The problem is gone if I boot into openbox instead of compiz. But I'd like to keep using compiz and reinstalling mesa didn't help.
Comment 4 Roy 2013-02-19 09:52:23 UTC 
Normally reinstalling Mesa overwrites whatever nVidia libraries there might be. They are located in /usr/lib and/or /usr/lib64, and called "libGL.so.304.18" , where the numbers might differ depending on what version of the official driver you used to have installed. Remove them, check that libGL.so.1 is a symlink to an existing file and if not unlink it and re-install libGL from mesa.

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