[Savage40] Issues on 8MB savages IX

[Alex Deucher]

--- Phil Stopford <phil at ldex.terica.net> wrote:

> 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

well, it doesn't seem to affect everyone, so...  FWIW, I think redhat
and ubuntu disable the DRI by default now on savage chips.

Alex

> 
> Phil.



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