Hi, when USE="insecure-drivers" is set, the xorg-x11 ebuild installs a development dri driver for (some) savage-based video cards. However, this driver does not work on my system yet. I found a guide [guide] and installed the kernel module mentioned there. (1) *Feature-Request* Maybe future ebuilds could install that kernel module so that there won't be additional work necessary after each X11 update? (2) It still doesn't work. X11 starts, but glxinfo[glxinfo]/xdriinfo say there is no direct rendering available. I checked those things: o The DRI driver supports my chipset [chipset] o The DRI driver is installed in the correct location (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/savage_dri.o) o The X server uses the correct configuration file [Xorg.0.log] o The X.org configuration file [xorg.conf] enables glx and dri extensions and sets 0666 permissions to dri o The X.org log files [Xorg.0.log] show both extensions and the savage driver to be loaded without errors o the kernel is configured for drm [.config] and the savage.ko module is loaded (lsmod) without problems [dmesgSavage] [guide] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/168951 [chipset] 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8636A [ProSavage KN133] AGP4XVGA Controller (TwisterK) (rev 01) [dmesgSavage] savage: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones [drm] Initialized savage 1.0.0 20011023 on minor 0: S3 Inc. VT8636A [ProSavage KN133] AGP4X VGA Controller (TwisterK) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Some versions: [ebuild R ] sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.9 -build -doc 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 +3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug +dlloader -dmx -doc -hardened +insecure-drivers -ipv6 +mmx +nls +pam -sdk +sse -static -xprint 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.8.2 0 kB
Created attachment 46532 [details] Output of glxinfo
Created attachment 46533 [details] X11 logfile
Created attachment 46534 [details] X11 configuration
Created attachment 46535 [details] kernel config (2.6.8.1)
Can't do the feature request, because it could conflict with a kernel-provided DRM. Would cause more trouble than it's worth. And I'm sorry, but we don't provide support on Bugzilla. Try something like: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=147440 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46681 http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DriTroubleshooting If it still doesn't work when you're absolutely sure it should be working in this release, you can (1) test 6.8.1.901 and (2) file a bug at bugs.freedesktop.org.