[Savage40] Issues on 8MB savages IX

[Phil Stopford]

Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> --- David Jaša <jasa.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> OpenGL doesn't work in Ubuntu last 6 months. Nearly everything was
>> said in bugs #30382 and #46314:
>>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-savage/+bug/30382
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/46314
>> I searched quickly other distributions and freedesktop.org trackers
>> and didn't find anything similar. Has anybody idea what's wrong?
>>
>> Thanks for help and for this list
> 
> DMA and AGP seems to generally be flakey on the older savages.  try
> Option "DmaMode" "None"
> and/or
> Option "BusType" "PCI"
> 
> Alex
> 
>> David Jaša

That works here on a rather elderly T21 running Ubuntu 6.06. It's hardly 
speedy, but it is working and stable. The first time I have managed to 
get this working, so thanks again for the nudge. I had given up hope 
after SUSE consistently locked up despite these options.

Irritatingly, if those lines are missing and dri is loaded, the whole 
machine locks up. Is there any way to detect the affected savages and 
somehow failsafe, rather than seize up the machine? Not having any real 
knowledge beyond that of an end user, I merely pose the question and 
wonder off :b

Phil.