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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. i've tried to run this old X server with new (2.6.32) kernel here is log from startup : http://83.18.229.190/Xorg/Xorg.0.log.old_X_new_kernel what is stunning - DRI works , and i get stunning 360fps with gears turning _smoothly_ in glxgears. downsides - switching to VT doesn't work. one can switch, keyboard works, but there is mess displayed (white screen or remains of past console). one can still type and execute commands (but nothing is displayed) so . there was certainly something broken in kernel's drm which made savage driver to be sluggish (on old kernel one could enjoy at just ~140fps). now there is new bug in kernel which makes VT switching broken (it is fine on old kernel) i can also start kde out of chroot'ed 'new' gentoo (the one which has new Xorg build) and it starts just fine, and works pretty smoothly (with plasma desktop it's quite visible , even moving things around desktop seems smoother, not to mention switching workspaces...) so it sounds rest of problems are due to 'bitrot' of savage drivers... is there still anyone able to fix it ? :/ what i could do to help it happen? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
