S3 savage support is not working in 12.10 and beyond
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-savage (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Recently installed 12.10 from both desktop / and alternate. Neither one had working video support. In 12.04 the support works with 1:2.3.3-1ubuntu1. In 12.10 the version that is not working is 1:2.3.6-0ubuntu. Video doesn't work at all.
The relevant urls are
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T20/T22
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 18000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: savagefb
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xserver-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Wed Jan 30 23:38:48 2013
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
What exactly is not working? Video playback (XV) or simply not being able to anything on the screen? Is it the same symptoms as in bug #1083032?