[Savage40] T22 DRI black screen

[Alex Deucher]

> nand wrote:
> 
> >I have an IBM T22 laptop running Debian Sarge. I have installed the
> Debian XFree86 => Xorg upgrade which includes DRI from
> http://www.nixnuts.net/files/binary/ and it doesn't seem to work
> quite right. The "savage" DRM module supposedly works with my card
> (the PCI ids match up) and the Xorg savage driver loads and reports
> this error:
> >
> >(II) SAVAGE(0): 8844 kB of Videoram needed for 3D; 8192 kB of
> Videoram available
> >(EE) SAVAGE(0): Insufficient Videoram available for 3D -- Try a
> lower color depth or smaller desktop.  For integrated savages try
> increasing the videoram in the BIOS.
> >(EE) SAVAGE(0): DRI isn't enabled
> >
> >So I tried a lower resolution.
> >
> >Now, whenever I start X with a resolution and/or color depth low
> enough to leave enough videoram for DRI, I just get a blank screen
> and I have to actually power off and back on again before I can see
> anything again. Rebooting does not help, the screen remains blank
> even through the BIOS and GRUB. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log over
> SSH, DRI claims to have loaded successfully. Does anybody know what
> the problem is?

do you get an output on the vga port?  It sounds like the LCD is
getting turned off for some reason.  are you able to start X at a lower
res with the load "dri" line commented out?  what about starting X and
switching to a lower res with ctrl-alt-+/-. are you using the bios to
set modes or not?

Alex



		
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