Re: XF86_SVGA + Savage/IX on a thinkpad T20
I asked XFree86 about it, and they had a binary distribution available
that probably includes that fix. It works ok on my Toshiba laptop.
This is the URL they gave me:
http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html
Aaron
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Butts wrote:
> Hello, all-
>
> I recently set about getting XFree86 3.3.6 to recognize the S3 Savage/IX
> in my T20, with mixed results.
>
> I pulled down the Debian source package for xserver-svga and pulled down
> and applied the fix-08-s3savage_ix+mx patches. After replacing the
> upstream tarball with the patched version, I ran ./debian/rules binary,
> which ended up running out of space on an otherwise empty 1GB partition.
> When I tried again about a week later, as part of my debugging attempt,
> and used more fine-grained builds (e.g. source.unpack, patchapply,
> build-libc6, etc), I got the same result, albeit with only 512 MB of
> free space to squander.
>
> Before the original ./debian/rules binary ran out of disk space, it did
> manage to build an XF86_SVGA, which appeared to work well, and which I
> was running happily for a couple of days until I discovered that it was
> causing the entire system to hang (needed a power cycle to clear) after
> 20 minutes - 1 hour or so of user inactivity (but not, FWIW, needing
> screen, disk or cpu inactivity. It would hang in the middle of a long-
> running task I had given it if I left it alone long enough). The time
> isn't consistent, but does appear to fall within that window (based on
> /var/log/messages marks).
>
> I have duplicated the problem with a 2.2.16 kernel, a 2.2.18pre9 kernel
> (with and without sound, crypto and raid patches). I may have done it
> with the vanilla 2.2.17 kernel from the initial installation (w/out APM
> support), but in retrospect, I was not at my most alert at the time, so
> that particular result may not be valid, and I don't have the patience
> right now to leave the laptop running long enough with all its features
> missing to confirm it. It also happened without the hardware cursor
> enabled, since that was about the only input-related feature of the X
> server that wasn't available in XF86_FBDev, which is stable, but _very_
> slow by comparison (obviously).
>
> So, my questions (finally) are these:
>
> (1) Has anybody else tried/failed/succeeded in getting a "real" X
> server running on a Savage/IX (preferably on a ThinkPad)? If
> so what tricks did/didn't work?
>
> (2) Given that I currently have an un-stripped XF86_SVGA binary,
> are there any debugging steps I can take to try to figure out
> what is going wrong here?
>
> (3) What have I done wrong that caused X to use more than 1GB of
> space while it was building? Is there a Right Way to compile
> just the X servers?
>
> Any light you good folks can help shed on this would be very much
> appreciated, since the FBDev server just isn't cutting it for me
> (Mmm... scrolling in Mozilla).
>
> Thanks-
>
> David
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