[ltp] T21 Savage driver issues (Was: T21 -- RH 7.1 no MPEGs)

[D. Sen]

But it works when you boot into runlevel 3, right? I have never tried booting
to run level 5.....the problem might well exist when you do that.

So as of now, if were to summarize the problems with the video driver, it would
look as follows:

1) Cannot have simultaneous LCD + CRT display (this seems to be unique to the
IX8+ based T21s) .....Tim says this has to do with the BIOS.
2) Incorrect rendering of fine lines (shows up in Matlab plots).
3) Cannot play mpegs/dvds at 24 bpp color depth.
4) VT switching doesnt work when booting into runlevel 5, or if we are not
frame buffers.

Of these, I think only IBM can shed light regarding the first problem.


Markus Alt wrote:

> "D. Sen" wrote:
> >
> > Markus Alt wrote:
> >
> > > "D. Sen" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Strange. I am really curious to see your XF86Config-4 file.
> > >
> > > Good hint! The "video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap" stuff didn't help BTW (I haven't
> > > used it until now). *But* this XF86Config idea made me try booting into
> > > runlevel 3 (i.e. without X) and voila: No problems with the framebuffer
> > > VCs when switching from LCD to CRT and back!
> > >
> >
> > Glad it worked :-) I also boot into runlevel 3 and then run 'startx'. I am
> > attaching my
> > XF86Config-4. Hope its of use. Its basically the one generated by running
> > XFree -configure
> > to which I added a modeline ( to get a higher refresh rate for my external
> > monitor) and the
> > following options to get around the scolling hang bug.
> >        Option      "ShadowStatus"
> >         Option "LCDClock"  "200MHz"
>
> Believe it or not, but it still doesn't work! I've taken your XF86Config
> file and the only thing I had to modify was to comment out the
>    FontPath   "unix/:-1"
> line as I don't have a font server running. X then started with the
> default font path which made KDE look a kind of strange, but worked.
> However, after going back to VC and switching displays - my old problem
> again! I must admit that I'm at my wit's end ...
>
> Anyway, Tim, I guess that this should be a configuration problem on my
> side and that the driver should be able to perform this operation. So I
> will stop bothering you with that stuff from now on. ;-)
>
> > I notice that your DRI section is enabled. Mine isnt. Does that mean you
> > have 3D support?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. I got this setting by running SaX2 and have never
> cared that much as all the other settings basically work.
>
> Markus
>
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