Bug#768958: ProSavage8 KM266/KL266 only support 800x600 with xserver-xorg-video-savage

[Ludwig Gebauer <ludwiggebauer@gmx.de>]

Laptop Mitac 8375
ProSavage8 KM266/KL266
mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 2400+ (1,8 GHz max.)
1280 MB RAM
Desktop LXDE

There seem to be some problems in Xorg, seems that all current
distributions are affected.

Upgrade of the driver to 2.3.8 [*] (installed in Jessie: 2.3.7)
restores resolution 1024x768, but scrolling and dragging of windows
remain extremely slow. Fiddling with xorg.conf.d (E.g. "DisableTile"
"on") may yield some "interesting" effects, but no further improvement.

Regards
Ludwig



[*] Cooking recipe:

Install Jessie packages
- build-essential
- xserver-xorg-dev

Download
http://www.x.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-savage-2.3.8.tar.gz

Do the usual things (tar -xzvf xf86*, cd xf86*, ./configure, make, make
install)

Remove /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so, and replace it by
the new savage_drv.so (somewhere in /usr/local) or set an appropriate
link.

Restart the display manager or reboot.