[ubuntu-x] savage misses outdated xaa

[Tormod Volden]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:29 PM,  <kardan at riseup.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> i got this T23 with
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
>
> I was happily using the laptop on natty and oneiric with kernels prior to
> 3.X. since upgrades to oneiric and precise graphic is scrambled and
> unusable. logs show a missing xaa which obviously is outdated, declared dead
> and unsupported since Xorg 1.13.

> What is the supposed workaround? I see two possibilities:
> * make savage driver no longer asks for xaa, using nv instead
> * offer a separate xaa module for present ubuntu on outdated chips (not
> reasonable)
> * something else
> Please enlight me.
>
> all the best,
> kardan
>

Hi,
This is a known bug and has been reported at https://launchpad.net/bugs/1083032

The problem is not the missing xaa, but that the fall-back does not
work and that the alternative EXA has some issues.

Regards,
Tormod