[Savage40] ProSavage - problems getting a correct display

[Felix Kühling]

Am Sonntag, den 13.03.2005, 11:38 +0100 schrieb 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

No need to be rude. It's cheap hardware, so you should know what to
expect when you buy it.

>  - 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.

Hmm, this sounds like it's a pure 2D driver issue. A lot has changed in
the 2D driver since the 6.8 release series. However, AFAIR you're the
first one to report this kind of problem with it. FWIW, I'm using the
same hardware here without such problems.

Some xorg.conf options you could try: UseBios, DisableTile and
DisableCOB. The last two will disable DRI at the same time, just try
them for narrowing down the problem. Let us know if any of this helps.
Please also attach your xorg.conf so we know if you have any other
obscure options set that may be related to your problems.

> 
> 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 ... :-)

You don't happen to use udevfs? I think someone reported problems with
this on dri-users? Anyway, what do you get when you run this as a normal
user:

  LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears

Also check:

  ls -l /dev/dri

I haven't migrated to udevfs yet, so I'm no expert. But you may have to
adjust the udev configuration to fix the permissions of /dev/dri/card*.

> 
> Maybe I try to use the xorg cvs again?

I'd be surprised if it makes any difference. The 2D driver in the
snapshots is compiled from Xorg CVS HEAD.

> 
> Asking for help,
> 
> Chris

Regards,
  Felix

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