[Savage40] New binary snapshots

[mtla at inwind.it]

Installed it on FC3 updated, no change in Xorg configs and I
get about 400 glxgears on Toshiba Tecra 8100:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/MX-MV (rev 11)

Thanks a lot!!!

Mihai

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Felix Kühling wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for all of you who did not build the new Savage DRI driver from source,
> there are now binary snapshots available at
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots. See also
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download.
>
> Let me reiterate the biggest gotchas with the new driver:
>      * You need a 2.6 kernel.
>      * You should set Option "ShadowStatus" "true" in xorg.conf, or
>        you're very likely to suffer from lockups.
>
> If you get lockups even with ShadowStatus there are a few more options
> you can try:
>
>      * In driconf disable vertex DMA (or define enable_vdma=false in
>        the environment).
>      * Set Option "DmaType" "PCI" or Option "ForcePCIMode" "true" in
>        xorg.conf.
>
> If you need any of these, I'd be interested in your exact hardware specs
> and which options are really needed in order to get rid of lockups.
>
> Best regards,
>  Felix
>
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