[Savage40] savage problems

[Tim Roberts]

Saboniss wrote:

>I've tried to take a screenshoot but I'm not able to get what is shown on
>monitor
>
>you can see the resulting screenshot here:  
>http://icarus.uic.edu/~msarto1/screenshot1.png
>
>it's formed by the stripe I actually see on the top of monitor repeated for
>the entire size of image.
>maybe you can figure out better what is the repeated part here: 
>http://icarus.uic.edu/~msarto1/untitled.png
>  
>

Interesting.  I'm not sure I could replicate that effect on purpose if I
tried.

>what I see is correct except for some types of objects( texts and icons)
>that are drawed as you can see in the image posted.
>
>I've also tried some opengl screensavers
>all work fine when they don't try to write text
>if they try to print per example the frames per second
>I don't see the desired text but pixel distributed at random across the
>screen.
>
>here is also my configuration file:
>
>http://icarus.uic.edu/~msarto1/xorg.conf
>  
>

This configuration file is using the "vesa" driver, not the "savage"
driver.  Is that really what you're using?  The Savage DRI kernel driver
isn't going to play well with the vesa x.org driver.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.