[ltp] T23 Savage DRM problem with KDE/X exiting

[Olek A.]

There's one bad thing : when I exit KDE I cannot jump to usual console 
terminal as always. There is black screen and nothing more.
Of course Ctrl+Alt+Del works ..... but it is not an elegant solution.

any ideas ?

Olek A.

On Tuesday 15 of May 2007 23:39:11 Olek A. wrote:
> A minute ago I reached 507 fps shown by glxgears with full rendering.
>
> Thanks to Alex Deucher and Mr. Yavner for info, suggestions & xorg.conf.
>
> Of course it was faulty installation of the LibGL library which I had
> combined from 2 sources .... I removed them all and reinstalled only one
> from official slackware repository.
> Latest git drm snapshot is, of course, OK.
>
> Short guide:
>
> 1. Use the following way of compiling Savage modules:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~jyavner/T23/
>
> Use appropriate drm snapshot = with my gcc 4.1.2 and kernel 2.6.21.1 the
> latest one from git finally worked well. To get it:
>
> git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
> (The firewall tcp port 9418 must be opened)
>
> and use instructions from the page above changing of course the kernel
> version number.
>
> 2. Make sure that libgl library is well installed - in my case (current
> slackware, modular Xorg) the package mesa-6.5.2-i486-1.tgz is the one. Do
> not install other libgl libraries as it may interfere with that from mesa
> package. In case of doubt see the troubleshooting DRI Wiki page:
>
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting
>
> regards,
> Olek Ansion