X with savage: what good options

multix · Apprentice Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 240 Location: Italy

Hi,

the latest Xorg & kernel give new hope to those using a savage card: the framebuffer works fine and also X starts now fine again, with the correct resolution, consoles work on quit.
BUT: I had to disable about everything.

I know some people switched to Vesa, but I want to share and explore the options here and in case open bug reports to freedesktop.org. I only need some 2D acceleration (windows moving & scrolling, that's all).

I understand, but correct me, that there is EXA acceleration (with or without DRI) and then ShadowFB, two indipendent things. Can they be used togehter or not?

From reading other forums (ubuntu, etc) I gather that ShadowFB should give a performance increase independently from Accel itself.

If I enable it, I get a unusable display: it is corrupted in the sense that it looks like things get drawn several times (I see like 4 cursors) moving... I suppose wrong offset when drawing. However for most people this seems to work and is used instead of EXA acceleration.

EXA acceleration... shows a "fine looking" screen on X start, but it corrupts on usage, parts of the screen become black and when exiting the console remains black. I suppose there are serious problems. A pity, because it looks quite fast indeed before ruining.
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multix · Apprentice Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 240 Location: Italy

Just for the record, this is my current setup:

For the monitor (specific for my ThinkPad possibly):

Jaglover · Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 11:27 pm Post subject:

Methinks I already mentioned it in another thread, but my solution with T23 was

multix · Apprentice Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 240 Location: Italy

Well, that is, I suppose, cheating, you are using the framebuffer driver

I have opened a bug about this, although I have small hopes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90634

Since most reports, threads and other things i found on the net are pretty inconclusive. I try to make at least a meaningful bug report because I found few.
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multix · Apprentice Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 240 Location: Italy

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "ShadowFB" "false"

-> with this little (it means DRI is disabled since the COB option is missing) the display is as slow as unaccelerated, but already contains the display bugs

killing X leaves a hung machine: hard restart is needed, no response on console or from remote.
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