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Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:11:28 +0200
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On Jul 22, 2013, at 18:35 , Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Tadeusz WasiutyƄski
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Dears,
>> from certain reasons I am using thinkpad T20 with graphics S3 Savage. It
>> worked perfectly under SL 6.0 but after upgrade it stopped. Indeed 6.0 live
>> works while 6.3 live does not. System itself seems to be OK. What was the
>> change meantime? Xorg.log is attached.
>> Best wishes
>> Tadeusz
> 
> The problem you are seeing might be related to this :
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2DriversOnly
> 
> If this is indeed the case, a newer version of X may be the one that
> caused the savage driver to stop working. Not sure what the best
> remedy is. Disabling hardware acceleration might help. Or downgrade
> the X ?

There was a report of the recent X.org update breaking the S3 savage chip in early April. One remedy is to fall back to the vesa driver, by removing xorg-x11-drv-savage and removing or adapting Xorg.conf. The same happened to the nv driver  with at least one chip.

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Stephan Wiesand
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