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

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/17/07, Olek A. <brodo@o2.pl> wrote:
> 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 ?

How about using the bios to restore the mode (hit fn-f7 a couple times)?

Alex

>
> 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
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