[Savage40] ThinkPad T23: 3D acceleration and savage frame buffer driver

[Alex Deucher]

--- Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag 10 Februar 2006 20:20 schrieben Sie:
> 
> > > Its not an urgent matter. I am quite happy that it works most of
> the
> > > time
> > > and actually do not use the 3D acceleration very often.
> >
> > The Xorg savage driver and the savagefb kernel module are not
> > compatible.  you can only use one or the other safely.
> 
> Hello Alex,
> 
> thanks for the info! I will deselect "savagefb" with the next kernel 
> compile and try to use vga=791 instead.
> 

vesa should work as well.

> Strange that it worked okay quite some times.
> 
> Could they be made compatible? Is work in progress to make them 
> compatible? Or are they incompatible by design? In case any
> betatesters 
> are needed, you have one at least ;).
> 

they just need to both make sure they save and restore all relevant
registers when when they are switched to or away from.  right now they
don't and they stomp on each other when you switch between them.

Alex


> Regards,
> -- 
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