[Savage40] ProSavage - problems getting a correct display

[Christian A. Reiter]

Hi,

I am using gentoo with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 server, sorry, the cvs compile 
doesn't work, but that's another thing.

I have a notebook with this shitty Prosavage8 graphics board - and I try to 
get it running with dri - without success.

I downloaded the current snapshots from dri.sourceforge.org/dri/snapshots 
(20050311) and installed it; I get the following result:

X starts, I can see the gray pattern screen, then kdm starts - everything 
works fine - but on the top side of the screen some of the icons and pictures 
that usually are in the kdm window seem to be scrambled and squeezed into a 
sector of about 30 pixels.
The buttons work, but there are no fonts, whether in the window, nor in the 
menus.

Starting twm works  (almost) fine - the "main"menu works, but the window menu 
(Ctrl-Click on Window) has a similar problem: the menu gets displayed 
correctly, but additionally there are some white "snow" pixels at top of the 
screen, appr. 30 pixels high, at the same x offset as the menu.

But: Direct Rendering works, says the Xorg.0.log, even when it doesn't work as 
normal user, just as root. (Yes, I have the 'Mode "0666"' in my 
xorg.conf ... :-)

Maybe I try to use the xorg cvs again?

Asking for help,

Chris