Xv now works beautifully on my T-23 with its SuperSavage IX/C SDR controller. However, it never works after the laptop suspends to ram. After resuming, I just get a black rectangle with no video in it. Restarting the X server appears to fix things.
Sorry, I should mention that I'm using 6.8.1-1ubuntu4 from Hoary.
try xorg from cvs.
For what it's worth, I'm seeing the same thing on a T22 running Fedora Core 4 with all the latest updates (xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2). I see the same symptoms after suspend-to-ram, and after suspend-to-disk using the swsusp2 patches. In both cases, it's necessary to to restart the X server to get Xv working.
Forgot to mention that I'm also seeing the same thing on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 which uses the Savage chip set. It's also running the lates updates to Fedora Core 4 and xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
It turns out (on my system anyway) that it's not even necessary to suspend. Simply switching to the text console (Ctl-Alt-F1) and back to X is enough to stop Xv from working. (Perhaps that information will make debugging easier) Is there any way to "reset" Xv without having to kill and restart the X server??
I'm running Fedora Core 4 on an IBM ThinkPad T23 (SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)), and see the same issue. > try xorg from cvs. Building RPMs without all the Fedora patches would be fairly time consuming (it looks like some of the patches are required for GCC 4.0). So this weekend I tried building the latest Fedora Core 4 x.org source (xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2) with drivers/savage reverted to 6.7.0 (which did not have this issue). This hybrid does not have the bug, so it does look like it crept into the mainline Savage driver after 6.7.0. I would be happy to try out any changes that might fix this issue, or help to narrow down the cause. Otherwise, I'll try a binary search of the changes after 6.7.0 to find exactly when this was introduced. But I'm not sure how long that process will take.
Thanks for the suggestion. I was hoping I could get away without having to rebuild from the ground up, so I tried simply replacing /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o on FC4 with the corresponding file from the FC2 distribution (which is built from 6.7.0). It works! (Well, I'm probably missing some 6.8 functionality or bug fixes, but this specific issue appears to be fixed, so this seems like a good workaround for now)
Any improvements using a more current version of xorg?
Ping to the bug submitter!
I had to give that T-23 back to my ex-employer so I don't have the hardware anymore. Maybe David Wragg or Peter Fales could say? Thanks for the ping!
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