On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Alex Deucher wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> i have dual head sa(l)vage(d) MX card.
>>
>> it works only in vesa mode, or with dri disabled.
>>
>> i am trying latest Xorg and mesa avail from gentoo ebuilds.
>>
>> also Xv doesn't work (tested with plain xawtv) - data is displayed
>> not in proper window, but as many rectangles with empty holes,
>> scattered over almost half of the screen (they move when one moves window)
>>
>> when one enables DRI - Xorg starts, xdm allows login, but it crashes
>> in the middle of kde startup.
>>
>> i've tried changing almost all options i was able to find,
>> and no help.
>>
>> EXA is not working either (Xorg starts, but there are no window
>> decorations)
>>
>>
>> peculiar thing is that not so long ago (perhaps year...)
>> i've tried to use the card on exactly same computer,
>> and it worked fine, including 3d.
>>
>> now only thing which differs is that
>> i use fresh gentoo install.
>> hopefully i've kept old gentoo on backups somewhere, so i will try to
>> restore it - but bit later (today i've wasted WHOLE DAY hoping to make it
>> work...)
>
> It's likely the driver has bitrotten since no one is actively working
> on it anymore.
>
> Alex
>

i've found disk with backup :)

first thing - switching to console and back to X work fine.
(it is broken in recent versions)

then - it's lightning fast compared to recent version
(scrolling windows, moving stuff around, etc)

stuff displyaing and scrolling in console does not slow down whole 
computer
(as it happens with recent drivers/Xorg) 
as result whole machine works significantly FASTER.


glxgears display something. it is not updating smoothly,
but there is ~100fps rating, and _something_ gets displayed.


also, both 'heads' get proper ram amount detected,
which is 8192k.

in recent driver, just one head (first) gets proper amount detected,
other gets just 2048 - no idea why (i was even afraid card got somehow
damaged...)

i'm on my way to test xv, but i somehow suspect it will also work fine.


here log of old driver can be seen :
http://83.18.229.190/Xorg/Xorg.0.log.old_one



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