https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843347 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843347#c0 Summary: Savage driver misbehaves/crashes on S3 ProSavage DDR-K graphics card Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: X.Org AssignedTo: bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: s_dibbern@web.de QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 After upgrading from 12.1 to 12.3, with my original configuration the X server was not usable at all. After starting with x11failsafe option and some searching, I found some similar cases, most of them on old Thinkpad T23 laptops with more or less similar S3 graphics chips. There are two workarounds: 1. specifying "AccelMethod" "XAA" + "DisableTile" or "NoAccel" in xorg.conf - both effectively disabling acceleration, which makes using X11 basically - well, let's say "uncomfortable". This seems to be rooted in removing the xaa module from xf86-video-savage, at least in my Xorg.log that module is marked as "not found". Hence DRI isn't enabled. I tried to use the exa module instead, but that fails utterly (X freezes and/or crashes) - without and also with! tiling disabled. Can I have xaa back, please? Note: This could be a duplicate of Bug #805380 References: * https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta... * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63279 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-savage/+bug/108... * http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/thinkpad/T23_F17.html Some details on my used setup: # uname -rvmp 3.7.10-1.16-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 31 20:21:23 UTC 2013 (97c14ba) i686 athlon # rpm -q xf86-video-savage xf86-video-savage-2.3.6-2.2.1.i586 # hwinfo --gfxcard 20: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: VCu0.rtTWMAVvz98 Parent ID: vSkL.ClyJU5Ffrr5 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "S3 ProSavage DDR-K" Vendor: pci 0x5333 "S3 Inc." Device: pci 0x8d04 "ProSavage DDR-K" SubVendor: pci 0x5333 "S3 Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x8d04 Memory Range: 0xdfe80000-0xdfefffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xdfe70000-0xdfe7ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 11 (no events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00005333d00008D04sv00005333sd00008D04bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: savage Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get a box with a affected S3 graphics card 2. install openSuSE 12.3 3. try to start Actual Results: broken X display, unusable Expected Results: normal, fast display -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.