savage module crashes X when going to full screen

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/21/07, Carl Becker <carl.becker at bliksam.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to find out how I can submit a bug. I believe I have found one
> and cannot find a solution to the problem anywhere.
> The problem I have is with the savage module and that changing to a full
> screen in any app (mostly games etc.) will crash x completely and then it
> will restart and I am back to the login screen.
>
> At first I thought it was a defect with my hardware but I have tried my hard
> drive in identical system and they all have this issue.
>
> I have a T23 with a S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05) controller and it
> uses the savage madule. I am using Fedora 7 with all the latest updates
> applied.
>
> Now my question is realy how do I go about properly filling this as a bug?
> Do I even need to or will it not help and what information do you need to be
> able to even look at this at all.
>
> I have found others that say this has only started happening since DRI was
> implimented...so I am thinking it might have something to do with that. Also
> I am not the only one who as observed this. See here:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2847853#post2847853
> Is there any way to gather mor information on why this is happeneing? At the
> moment all I can see is X crash and then it restarting and then the logon
> screen.
>
> I would like to help with this issue any way I can.

The crash is fixed in savage git or the recently released 2.1.3
version of the savage driver.  It was due to some changes in xserver
1.3.

Alex