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

[Olek A.]

No, it doesn't work. 
As I "accelerated" lately two T23 machines I have now two of them behaving the 
same way .... 
Uncommenting Load	"dri" and Load "glx" in xorg.conf helps, but at the cost of 
full rendering .... (500 fps --> 200 fps)

Olek A.

On Thursday 17 of May 2007 15:26:07 Alex Deucher wrote:
> 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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