[Savage40] xe3 mode switch problems

[Dmitry Golubev]

Hello, 

Thank you for your answer. the thing is that I am using 16bit depth and 
software cursor.

Thanks
Dmitry

On Saturday 09 July 2005 05:36, Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I can´t write much now or help you debug as I´m out of the
> country at the moment, but there is a bug with screen to screen copies
> as I recall in depth 24 on crtc2.  you can either disable that with the
> noxaa... option or grab the latest version of the savage driver from
> xorg cvs.  the code and binaries on my website are very out of date at
> this point.  Depth 16 should work properly with full 2D accel in all
> modes.  If you are still having problems, I can help you debug them
> when I get back in town.
>
> Alex
>
> --- Dmitry Golubev <dmitry at mikrotik.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an HP XE3 notebook with Savage/IX-MV mobile 8MB integrated
> > graphics
> > controller. I am using up-to-date Debian SID distribution. While it
> > worked
> > fine, one day I decided that I want to utilize its dualhead
> > capabilities by
> > plugging in a 1280x1024 LCD monitor (the lcd panel of the notebook
> > works in
> > 1024x768 mode). that where problems arise...
> >
> > I have tried many drivers (using ubuntu xorg server; freedesktop
> > xorg-dri
> > distribution; and also both xservers with drivers from
> > http://www.botchco.com/alex/new-savage/savage/working/ ) with almost
> > all
> > possible configurations and driver options, with the same result:
> > while it's
> > working properly in noaccel mode (this is obviously not what I want,
> > since
> > even moving windows is ridiculously slow), enabling accelerations
> > bring out
> > more or less weird problems (which, of course may as well be hardware
> >
> > problems, but in that case wouldn't it be on all XE3 notebooks and
> > thus
> > worked around long time ago???). it also seems like having 1024x768
> > mode on
> > the second screen makes less or no problems, which is not what I
> > want, as i
> > have external lcd monitor connected, which is designed to work at
> > 1280x1024
> > and interpolation is not very interesting to observe...
> >
> > 1. If I go with acceleration on both heads, drawing more or less
> > complex
> > something on the second, makes garbage on the first, but opening, for
> >
> > example, firefox with a gnome theme (a lot of textures I suppose),
> > blocks the
> > X completely with garbage all over both screens
> >
> > 2. If I go with acceleration only on the first screen (lcd panel),
> > everything
> > seems to work fine until I switch to text mode (I do not need the
> > text
> > consoles, but unfortunately sleep/suspend/hibernate operations do
> > switch
> > modes... if you can make these procedures not switch modes, it would
> > be an
> > acceptable workaround for me) . The effect is that text modes work
> > good, but
> > switching back brings garbage on both screens, and a part of the
> > second
> > screen assumes it is the first screen... cant really describe this...
> >
> > As the only thing that can fix the 2nd point is restarting X server I
> > even
> > spent some time on researching X session suspending, but have found
> > no proper
> > solution. NX although looks good seems to only work on one of the
> > screens
> > (in X configuration with two separate screens, so that I can use
> > xrandr from
> > gnome), but with xinerama it looks like not realizing how to work
> > with this
> > extension, making windoes appear at the middle of the screen... (but
> > i don't
> > really like using xinerama as it disables xrandr, but in dulahead
> > config it
> > is obviously a good idea for notebook users since i have plans on
> > attaching
> > projectors (800x600 or 1024x768) to that external vga connector)
> >
> > Thanks and excuse me for writing such a long email,
> > Dmitry
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