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Re: x-window problem after update
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:35:17 -0700
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Tadeusz Wasiutyński
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> 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 ?

Akemi

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