savage/IX-MV + DRI error on X Window 7.2???

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/6/07, Nguyễn Việt Hải <gnuzilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi men,
>
> I'm now using slackware-current with X Window System Version
> 1.2.99.903 (1.3.0 RC 3) on my IBM Thinkpad T21 (using S3 Savage
> chipset).
>
> Everytime after cold booting, when I issued startx (both for start
> with KDE or original X window manager), my screen became blank with a
> dash on the top-left conner. The keystrokes Ctrl-Alt-Fx or Alt-Fx (x =
> 1..7) didn't work. But I could hear the sound indicated that my KDE
> started successfully.
>
> If I Ctrl-Alt-BkSp then Ctrl-Alt-Del, the same problem showed up.
>
> If I pressed the Power button (to cut off the power) to force my
> laptop to shutdown, then start it again, I can go to my X display (KDE
> or original X window manager).
>
> Besides that, I always couldn't end my X session the right way except
> for Ctrl-C in console. If I ended my X session by issueing KDE 'End
> session' or Ctrl-Alt-BkSp, my screen go blank and I can't do other
> things, even switch to another console.
>
> After search something, some web pages, I disabled the "Load dri" in
> xorg.conf. And everything go great!! Startx and end an X session went
> well, no freeze.
>
> So how can we can configure support DRI for savage/IX-MV???
>

DRI support is a bit flaky right now on the savages.  Fixing it up is
on my todo list, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it.  You might try
forcing PCI mode or disabling DMA (see the savage man page).

Alex

> PS: I have attached my Xorg.0.log (that I saw and found nothing
> strange) and my xorg.conf
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