On 05/10/2013 08:13 PM, Tormod Volden wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Pander wrote: >>> On 05/07/2013 09:24 PM, Connor Behan wrote: > >>>> SiS drivers support EXA and will probably use that by default when >>>> you start one of the newer Xservers that lacks XAA. This could >>>> easily crash if the SiS EXA hooks haven't been updated in awhile so >>>> that's why I suggested "NoAccel" to help diagnose the problem. > > Connor, first, thanks a lot for caring for these old drivers. A lot of > people are still using their old laptops and run the latest Linux > distributions on them. > > Thanks especially for the hint you gave earlier in this thread: "EXA > callbacks that use the devPrivate.ptr of a pixmap." I am trying to > keep the savage driver working, but I don't have the capacity to > follow xorg development in detail. Recently an EXA problem came up for > which I had no clue. Reading your hint was enough to guide me in the > right direction and now I believe I have fixed it with a one-liner > change. > >> Xorg works but when I press CTRL+ALT+F1 I get a screen with an unusable >> screen. I see a small part of Xorg repeated a lon on the left side and >> on the right side many different colors. This part works with the older >> SiS driver for other cards. > > Pander, does console switching work with the vesa driver? It doesn't > on my savage card, so I wonder if it is a more general non-KMS > problem. You say it works with the older SiS driver though, was that > also on the latest xserver? >
Yes it worked and was on Ubuntu 13.04 xorg 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu6 Also, when booting and no X has been loaded the screen also works. > Regards, > Tormod > _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel