On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski <curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote: > i have dual head sa(l)vage(d) MX card. > > it works only in vesa mode, or with dri disabled. > > i am trying latest Xorg and mesa avail from gentoo ebuilds. > > also Xv doesn't work (tested with plain xawtv) - data is displayed > not in proper window, but as many rectangles with empty holes, > scattered over almost half of the screen (they move when one moves window) > > when one enables DRI - Xorg starts, xdm allows login, but it crashes > in the middle of kde startup. > > i've tried changing almost all options i was able to find, > and no help. > > EXA is not working either (Xorg starts, but there are no window > decorations) > > > peculiar thing is that not so long ago (perhaps year...) > i've tried to use the card on exactly same computer, > and it worked fine, including 3d. > > now only thing which differs is that > i use fresh gentoo install. > hopefully i've kept old gentoo on backups somewhere, so i will try to > restore it - but bit later (today i've wasted WHOLE DAY hoping to make it > work...)
It's likely the driver has bitrotten since no one is actively working on it anymore. Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
