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kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

Savage S3 cards dri stops working with recent savage-dri

I'm using a Thinkpad T23 which has a Savage S3 video card and I've just run into issues starting zsnes and on the search for the problem found that "glxinfo" gave out the following:

../common/drirenderbuffer.c:69: driNewRenderbuffer: Assertion `format == 0x1908 || format == 0x8050 || format == 0x8058 || format == 0x81A5 || format == 0x81A6 || format == 0x81A7 || format == 0x8D48' failed.

After playing with older versions a bit, I found out that I needed to downgrade savage-dri to version 7.6-2, and along with that libgl to 7.6-2 as well. I can leave the xf86-video-savage drivers at their current version (2.3.1-2) and dri works again (zsnes starts and glxinfo works).

Downgrading works, but isn't really a nice solution, has anyone experienced similar issues or knows what's going on?

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Savage S3 cards dri stops working with recent savage-dri

Well you're not alone.  I just reinstalled Arch on my T21 thinkpad and experienced the same issues trying to play Diablo II in wine.  Thanks to your post, downgrading solves the issue for me too.  They're working on it though (reference bug #17638)

Edit: It's nice to know that these old thinkpads just seem to go on forever.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2010-02-07 18:51:16)

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