I was having a lot of problems with vtk, and the applications using them (paraview ; and mayavi wich is not in portage) All of them hang (even the simplest examples from vtk tutorial. Even the pre-compiled packages from kitware didn't work. (I have test it on Knoppix and it worked on the same machine, ... what the hell was going on?) I was investigating the problem during a week, until I had the perhaps obvious idea (but it took me a whoie week to realize!) update the savage driver! Then everything works as expected. So, please update the stable savage driver to x11-driver/xf86-video-savage-2.1.2 (since 2.1.1 is plainly buggy) My card identifies itself as 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ProSavage KM133 (rev 03) (using lspci) I'm using sci-libs/vtk-5.0.2 and sci-visualization/paraview-2.4.4 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run step 1 example from vtk tutorial or paraview in a machine with a savage card and using the version 2.1.1 of the driver 2. The X server hangs... 3.
Arch teams, this package has been in the tree for a few months and I don't know of any open bugs for it. Like Pablo says, it fixes some problems that are in 2.1.1. Please stabilize at your leisure.
(In reply to comment #1) > Arch teams, this package has been in the tree for a few months and I don't know > of any open bugs for it. Like Pablo says, it fixes some problems that are in > 2.1.1. Please stabilize at your leisure. Note that this package requires drm modules from the git repository at freedesktop.org. It doesn't work with savage.ko from 2.6.19.2 kernel, but works with savage.ko and drm.ko from git.freedesktop.org. I've tested it with SuperSavage card integrated into IBM ThinkPad T23. Also you probably should apply this patch (fix savage respawn crash): http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-savage.git;a=commitdiff;h=3e2d370e291f5f222de88075f1f285446cca0569 This version of driver have some bugs which xf86-video-savage-2.0.2.3 didn't have (for example, Blender with current version of this driver completely distorts screen on startup, though with 2.0.2.3 it worked fine), but 2.0.2.3 is incompatible with new xorg-server.
(In reply to comment #2) > Note that this package requires drm modules from the git repository at > freedesktop.org. It doesn't work with savage.ko from 2.6.19.2 kernel, but works > with savage.ko and drm.ko from git.freedesktop.org. I've tested it with > SuperSavage card integrated into IBM ThinkPad T23. Is that because of bugs in the kernel?
(In reply to comment #3) > Is that because of bugs in the kernel? I suppose, no. Apparently, the module in vanilla kernel is outdated (it works well with older drivers, but not with more recent). I have used savage driver 2.0.2 with vanilla kernel's module without considerable problems (the only problem was concerned with hardware 3d after resuming from software suspend), but after upgrading to 2.1.2 all GL programs begin to report errors during initialization (something about failure while trying to map buffer, I didn't remember this exactly) and fall back to indirect rendering. Installing drm modules from freedesktop git repository have solved this problem (the modules in x11-drm package from portage are outdated, too).
Alright. Sorry for the noise arch teams, sounds like this isn't quite ready yet. Marking Inclusion for the suggested patch in comment #2.
I want to thank all of you for your help, and specially Slava Gorbunov for comment #2. I'm sending to you an ebuild for x11-drivers/xf86-video-savage and a patch file, for applying the patch that you suggest. I was experimenting a crash at the end of kde session (using kde). I'm using kde 3.5.6 from portage. (I wasn't sure about the cause: it didn't thought it was the video driver, it thought it was the new version of KDE, or perhaps something wrong-compiled so that I was compiling again all the packages on which kdebase depends upon!) I've tried adding the patch that you suggested and the problem was fixed. I suggest that you add this to portage.
Created attachment 110506 [details] modified ebuild for the driver with the suggested patch
Created attachment 110507 [details, diff] patch for fixing a crash from freedesktop.org (see comment #2)
One more observation: regardless of comment #2, I'm using this driver now with (vanilla) kernel 2.6.20 and it seems to work fine.
Thanks for the files. This bug is marked Inclusion, so it'll get into the tree once we have time.
I've checked that the Debian guys have already applied this patch to this package, which will be included in the "Etch" distribution (to be released soon) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-savage/xserver-xorg-video-savage_2.1.2-3/changelog
Thanks guys, the patch is in the tree with 2.1.2-r1. We'll stabilize 2.1.2-r1 after it gets some testing time.
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Cleaning old bugs with state LATER. This one is fixed because of 2.2.1 is stable.
