Hi there all Savage users!

I've got problem with my Savage/IX card inside a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4270
laptop. I've built all the software required to launch DRI for a Savage card
(that is, X.org, Mesa and the kernel DRM module) from CVS. My glxgears result
peaks at 394 fps, which I consider not that bad. I've also managed to run
Quake II @ 1024x768 with a stable framerate of 17 frames per second! So at the
beginning, thanks to all Savage developers for bringing us to this point.

However, I've got a problem with DGA and I'm quite unsure whether this should
already work or not. I haven't found anything on this topic on the net. Well,
the problem is I can't use DGA correctly. It does launch, but the display I
get is pretty far from what you can call a "usable environment" :-) This
includes e.g. MPlayer and Starcraft with wine-20041019. When I start X, an
entry "Loading extension XFREE86-DGA" appears in the logs and gives no errors.

When I start MPlayer with the -vo dga option, the screen gets divided into
several stripes of pixelised video. "Pixelised" means I get squares about
10 pixels wide (can't take any screenshots, I'm afraid). However, the picture
isn't totally random, it resembles the correct output. But you cannot call it
even a "satisfactory" one :-) Within MPlayer, keyboard shortcuts work (video
navigation, exiting and all this stuff).

Starcraft with wine-20041019 is a little bit more of a confusion. When I run
wine as root, my display turns into an almost-random combination of pixels.
Again, it _isn't_ totally random. I can e.g. see that rotating satellite dish
in the main menu :-) (Well, actually it's more like a "coordinated motion of
pixels that I sense is a satellite dish" ;-)) However, Starcraft gets my
keyboard and mouse locked up - holding the POWER button is the only solution
(heard of this _many_ times before).

So, my question is: does any of you guys happen to have such problems or is it
something with my specific configuration? Or maybe DGA support is still
experimental? If so, take your time - I just wanna know whether I have anything
to work with.

Thanks in advance for any help and good luck to all of you out there!

Michal Kepien


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