[Savage40] SuperSavage/IXC 64 issues

[Tim Roberts]

Joachim Frieben wrote:

>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:
>...
>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:
>...
>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?
>  
>

Remember that the SuperSavage has a very different 3D engine from the
Savage4 and the Savage/IX, and the public documentation isn't as good. 
I suspect it hasn't had nearly as much testing effort.

Only the T22/T23 had a SuperSavage.  The T20/T21 had a Savage/IX.  Those
were the only models in the "T2X series".

>There has virtually been 0 traffic on this list during the last 2 months.
>Has everybody got a new notebook? ;)
>  
>

Almost certainly.  The ThinkPad T23 was designed in 2001.  For a laptop,
that makes it a dodgy old senior citizen.  This mailing list has dropped
from a peak of 1,000 subscribers to a current total of about 520.

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