Dear maintainers,

With a fresh installation of Jessie on a Packard Bell EasyNote E1260W
with graphic card ProSavage8 KM266/KL266, the Savage driver allows a
maximum resolution of 800x600, and everything displayed is really ugly
(looks like there is no anti-aliasing).

You can find attached the Xorg.0.log-savage

If I use the Vesa driver by writing a file named (for example)
99-video-quirk.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/, with the following
contents, 1024x768 is then automatically used, with "anti-aliasing" :

Section "Device"
   Identifier   "ProSavage8 KM266/KL266"
   Driver       "vesa"
EndSection

You can find attached the Xorg.0.log-vesa

I suppose that normally the Savage driver should work better.

This bug does not seem to be Debian specific : I also tried whith
ArchLinux and it was similar.


Also, the font on the tty is ugly : normally a few seconds after boot
the tty becomes "prettier", but here it is the opposite : resolution
stays the same and font becomes ugly.

uname -a :
Linux EasyNote 3.16-3-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.5-1 (2014-10-10) i686
GNU/Linux

xorg version : 1:7.7+7

dpkg -l | grep xserver :
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+3+b1
ii  xserver-common                        2:1.16.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg                          1:7.7+7
ii  xserver-xorg-core                     2:1.16.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                1:7.7+7
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev              1:2.9.0-2
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse              1:1.9.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics          1.8.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse            1:13.0.0-1+b3
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom              0.26.0+20140918-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all                1:7.7+7
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati                1:7.5.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus             1:1.5.2-2+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev              1:0.4.4-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-geode              2.11.16-4
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel              2:2.21.15-2+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mach64             6.9.4-2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mga                1:1.6.3-2+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-modesetting        0.9.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-neomagic           1:1.2.8-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau            1:1.0.11-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome         1:0.3.3-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-qxl                0.1.1-2+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-r128               6.9.2-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon             1:7.5.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-savage             1:2.3.7-2+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion      1:1.7.7-2+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb             1:0.9.6-2+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-tdfx               1:1.4.5-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-trident            1:1.3.6-2+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa               1:2.3.3-1+b3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware             1:13.0.2-3+b1

You can also find attached lspci -v and kern.log (using the savage
driver).


Regards,
Yvan

Dear maintainers,

I don't know if it can help, but I installed (and updated) Lubuntu 14.04
on this same computer : Although the bootsplash is also 800x600 and
"ugly", lightm and lxsession are displayed with full resolution
(1024x768), automatically.

You can find the corresponding Xorg log attached.

Thanks for your time,
YvanM

Hi,

Same issue here after upgrading a Vobis Uniwill N341C2 from Wheezy to
Jessie. The Savage Twister KN133 worked with 1024x768 under Wheezy, with
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.2.901-1 and xserver-xorg-video-savage 1:2.3.7-2+b2
it is limited to 800x600.

The Xorg.log from Wheezy shows an additional "Driver mode" Modeline
with 1024x768. I have tried various xserver versions, the last working
was 1.14. There are some changes related to modeline handling in the
last Xorg releases so I took a closer look to relevant lines in
savage_driver.c. It seems that xf86CVTMode() should not be called with
reduced blanking set to TRUE. Rebuilding xserver-xorg-video-savage
with the attached xf86CVTMode patch gives me the 1024x768 resolution
back (see Xorg.0.log_jessie_patch).

Would be nice to get this fix released with Jessie.

Regards,
Alexander

Hi,

thought I tested this before, but this upstream fix solves the
modeline problem, no other patch needed:

commit 2e9217bb88b76cebfcd2b65b76c8733f80da77ea
Author: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 21 10:59:13 2013 -0500

    Include xf86Modes.h to use functions from hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Modes.c.

    Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
    Reviewed-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>

diff --git a/src/savage_driver.h b/src/savage_driver.h
index ec4b1ea..de042af 100644
--- a/src/savage_driver.h
+++ b/src/savage_driver.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 #if GET_ABI_MAJOR(ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION) < 6
 #include "xf86Resources.h"
 #endif
+#include "xf86Modes.h"
 #include "xf86Pci.h"
 #include "xf86_OSproc.h"
 #include "xf86Cursor.h"




Regards,
Alexander

Hello

It seems there is a patch available in Ubuntu. Is it possible to use
this path also here?

Kind regards

Dear Maintainer,

Same problem with a LifeBook C1020.

Solved this way :

- remove xserver-xorg-video-savage (BTW is it DRI2 compatible?)
- take care of some meta packages (task-*, *-video-all)
- comment/remove 'blacklist savagefb' from /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf
- use fbdev as the device driver for X (xorg.conf)

savagefb is useful in that case.

Could you please consider make some change for
xserver-xorg-video-all:
- remove xserver-xorg-video-savage from Depends
- add it to Recommends

No more breaking then if the *-video-savage package is removed.

Thanks a lot,

Laptop Mitac 8375
ProSavage8 KM266/KL266
mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 2400+ (1,8 GHz max.)
1280 MB RAM
Desktop LXDE

There seem to be some problems in Xorg, seems that all current
distributions are affected.

Upgrade of the driver to 2.3.8 [*] (installed in Jessie: 2.3.7)
restores resolution 1024x768, but scrolling and dragging of windows
remain extremely slow. Fiddling with xorg.conf.d (E.g. "DisableTile"
"on") may yield some "interesting" effects, but no further improvement.

Regards
Ludwig



[*] Cooking recipe:

Install Jessie packages
- build-essential
- xserver-xorg-dev

Download
http://www.x.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-savage-2.3.8.tar.gz

Do the usual things (tar -xzvf xf86*, cd xf86*, ./configure, make, make
install)

Remove /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so, and replace it by
the new savage_drv.so (somewhere in /usr/local) or set an appropriate
link.

Restart the display manager or reboot.