[Savage40] SuperSavage/IXC 64 issues

[Alex Deucher]

--- Joachim Frieben <jfrieben at freesurf.fr> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> nore than half a year after the release of "Xorg 7" featuring 3D
> support for
> the "Savage" chip family for the very first time, there are still
> some
> issues with regarding stability and basic functionality of the
> "savage"
> driver. I had posted two bug reports myself at the "Red Hat"
> bugzilla:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195851
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195854
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196011
> 
> which have essentially been closed by "Red Hat" after disabling
> direct
> rendering for the "savage" driver in "Fedora Core". Morever, there
> are
> several reports at the "freedesktop" bugzilla including:
> 
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6357
> 
> As the notebooks of the "IBM ThinkPad T2X" series are equipped with
> chips of
> the "SuperSavage/IX" family, there are certainly many users out there
> who
> are extremely interested in a increased stability of the "savage"
> driver and
> kernel modules. Any clues or suggestions?
> There has virtually been 0 traffic on this list during the last 2
> months.
> Has everybody got a new notebook? ;)
> 
> 

I still have a savage notebook and I work on the driver as I have time.
 I haven't had time to track down the recently reported problems with
3D on newer versions of Xorg.  Unforunately, I can't repoduce all the
problems.  In the meantime, if anyone else is able to debug it and
produce a patch, I'll be happy to review it and apply it upstream.

Alex


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