Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:51:37 +0100 From: Joe Silver <joe.silver@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with Savage Card Message-ID: <9b97152c0412271551832c37d@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, sorry for my bad english.. I installed X.org-6.8.1 through ports on a laptop equipped with a Savage graphic card. At first I probed hardware with # Xorg -configure but # Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new leads to the hanging of the machine and a blank screen: no Xorg.0.log in /var/log Then I tried 'xorgconfig', giving in the same options used with OpenBSD and Linux, which work very well. But the X server seems to be unable to go up and hangs the machine whenever the "savage" driver is used. So I changed "savage" with "vesa" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf With these settings X bootstraps but the only way to kill it avoiding a total freeze is: # pkill -9 X Exiting from any window manager doesn't work. With pkill -9 X, the display freezes and I can go back to the console with CTRL + ALT + F1 but here I find the screen somewhat corrupted. I'm able to interact with the system only typing commands that I can see and rebooting the machine! I also found that this kind of corruption disappears if the kernel is rebuilt with raster mode (options ...) and 800x600 resolution is used: # vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 Now, I wish I could use the savage driver and a cleaner way to exit from X without the brutal 'kill -9' Any suggestions ? Here's attached /var/log/Xorg.0.log [-- Attachment #2 --]
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