Bug 3531 – X ebuild script error, xf86config specifically states that it doesn't support S3 Savage4 when xfree.org says it does. I think its a compile option problem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sean Ochoa 2002-06-09 02:29:16 UTC]

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-06-09 07:00:36 UTC]

*** Bug 3532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-06-09 11:49:01 UTC]

I have /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o, so it would seem as if
savage support is compiled in ?  What does other distro do ?  I dont see
anything savage specific in the Mandrake .spec file.

Just set the driver to "savage" and see what happens.

[Comment 3 Sean Ochoa 2002-06-09 15:45:40 UTC]

I have set the driver to savage, and it still errors out.  It states in 
xf86config right after I emerge X that my card is "basically UNSUPPORTED" and 
that the chipset for this card is "(null)".  I set it manually and when I run 
startx, the screen just goes black.  I then notice that X was killed due to 
some error which was NOT reported in the log file, XF43386.0.log.  

here is my current XF86Config file:  

Section "Files" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" 
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" 
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" 
   FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" 
EndSection 

Section "Module" 
   Load   "GLcore" 
   Load   "dri" 
   Load   "glx" 
   Load   "bitmap" 
   Load   "dbe" 
   Load   "ddc" 
   Load   "extmod" 
   Load   "freetype" 
   Load   "int10" 
   Load   "pex5" 
   Load   "record" 
   Load   "speedo" 
   Load   "type1" 
   Load   "vbe" 
   Load   "xie" 
   Load   "v4l" 
EndSection 

Section "InputDevice" 
   Identifier   "Generic Keyboard" 
   Driver      "keyboard" 
   Option      "CoreKeyboard" 
   Option      "AutoRepeat"   "250 30" 
   Option      "XkbRules"   "xfree86" 
   Option      "XkbModel"   "pc105" 
   Option      "XkbLayout"   "us" 
   #Option      "XkbModel"   "pc104" 
   #Option      "XkbLayout"   "us_intl" 
EndSection 

Section "InputDevice" 
   Identifier   "Configured Mouse" 
   Driver      "mouse" 
   Option      "CorePointer" 
   Option      "Device"      "/dev/psaux" 
   Option      "Protocol"      "ImPS/2" 
   Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "true" 
   Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5" 
EndSection 

Section "Device" 
   Identifier   "Configured Video Card" 
   Driver     "savage" 
EndSection 

Section "Monitor" 
   Identifier   "Configured Monitor" 
       HorizSync   30-69 
       VertRefresh 50-160 
   Option      "DPMS" 
   DisplaySize    293 219  # this makes fonts size correct 
EndSection 

 

Section "Screen" 
    Identifier  "Default Screen" 
    Device      "Configured Video Card" 
    Monitor     "Configured Monitor" 
    DefaultDepth 24 

    Subsection "Display" 
        Depth       8 
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" 
        ViewPort    0 0 
    EndSubsection 
    Subsection "Display" 
        Depth       16 
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" 
        ViewPort    0 0 
    EndSubsection 
    Subsection "Display" 
        Depth       24 
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" 
        ViewPort    0 0 
    EndSubsection 
EndSection 

Section "ServerLayout" 
   Identifier   "Default Layout" 
   Screen      "Default Screen" 
   InputDevice   "Generic Keyboard" 
   InputDevice   "Configured Mouse" 
EndSection 

Section "DRI" 
   Mode   0666 
EndSection 

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-08 13:49:15 UTC]

Still an issue ?  If so, please test xfree-4.2.1 when it is release.

[Comment 5 Sean Ochoa 2002-09-08 19:32:33 UTC]

I will be getting a new system, this bug will not be an issue. 

Sincerely, Sean Ochoa (the one who reported this issue)

[Comment 6 Luca Barbato 2002-10-21 16:23:20 UTC]

Created attachment 4876 [details]
xfree+savage updated driver

I think that is 50% an upstream problem (some savage* chips had the id changed
by oems and isn't set in the xfree) and 50% our (the savage chip has to work
but with his driver that isn't on the standard Xfree distribution)

the included ebuild works fine on the Amilo M laptop.

[Comment 7 Luca Barbato 2002-10-21 16:25:56 UTC]

BTW remove DRI and glx from the XF86Config file, no DRI support (and also the
agpgart for some integrated VIA/S3 chips isn't really supported by the current
kernel)

[Comment 8 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 16:38:16 UTC]

Hrm, 4.2.1 was supposed to have the savage-1.1.20 driver.  See I got it to
install the binary and not the source :/  Fixed, and updated to 1.1.25t.

[Comment 9 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-11-04 07:01:12 UTC]

This should be  fixed ... if any issues, reopen.