[Savage40] Issues on 8MB savages IX

[Joachim Frieben]

"DmaMode" shouldn't be much of a probleem as it gets disabled by "Xorg"
(7.1) anyway. Concerning the 2nd option, I haven't observed any improvement
to using bus type "AGP" on my "IBM ThinkPad T23". In particular, the black
"glxgears" window remains unaltered. I have found a recent posting to this
list interesting, namely:

  http://probo.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/2006-August/000495.html

which seemed to point to evidence that the problems with "Xorg 7.1" might
actually rather be due to a modification of the kernel "DRM" code. This was

>
> DMA and AGP seems to generally be flakey on the older savages.  try
> Option "DmaMode" "None"
> and/or
> Option "BusType" "PCI"
>
> Alex
>