[ltp] Freezing T21 with Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0

[martin]

I use knoppixSTD on my t21, had same problem. 
adding
    	Option      "ShadowStatus"
to my XF86config-4 helped...
eg
Section "Device"
	### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
	#Option	    "Backingstore"
    	Option      "ShadowStatus"	
	Identifier  "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
	Driver      "savage"
	VendorName  "S3"
	BoardName   "Savage/IX-MV"
#	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

PS. backingstore should be good and it made couple of my GUI-programs happy but my X in general quite slow... 
what's it for? anyone?

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:25:01 -0500 
Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> kirjutas:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:42:55 -0800, Lyndon Tiu <ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Hopefully someone on this list has some ideas.
> > 
> > I have an IBM T21 laptop P3-800/650Mhz with 256MB RAM running Mandrake
> > 9.1, 9.2 and 10.0.
> > 
> > I have had this problem where after a few hours of continiuos use on
> > X-windows, it would freeze and a hard reboot is necessary. It usually
> > occurs when I am scrolling on Mozilla, OpenOffice, Konqueror or Kmail -
> > it seems that the common denominator here is scrolling.
> > 
> > The freeze only occurs when under X-windows and not when under a plain
> > command line console (runlevel 3).
> > 
> > I have checked the RAM and it is fine since I have swapped it with other
> > fully working laptops.
> > 
> > I have tried various APM/ACPI settings using tpctl to no avail. The
> > freeze occurs at random intervals and is very hard to reproduce, when it
> > happens, it happens. It also affects a few different mandrake versions
> > from 9.0 to 10.0.
> > 
> > Anyone else here had this problem and any suggested solutions?
> > 
> 
> you might try running xorg from cvs.  I re-wrote large amounts of the
> savage driver.  I've found it to be very stable and it now supports
> dualhead.
> 
> Another thing you might try is turning off certain XAA accel routines.
>  see the xorg.conf or XF86Config man page for how to do this.
> 
> Alex
> 
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> > Lyndon Tiu
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