X crashes when opening OpenGL applications on Maverick

[Mike L]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-savage

+Distribution: Xubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat i386
Hello,
     When I go to run an application utilizing OpenGL, X hangs & crashes. This only happens on my computer with the ProSavage DDR graphics card. It is utilizing the savage driver from Xorg. I've tried utilizing the X Updates PPA to no avail. On other PCs, this graphical problem is not an issue, so it can be narrowed down to this particular graphics card driver. Also, when the PC ran Lucid Lynx, this problem never occurred. OpenGL had worked, fullscreen applications had worked, etc. Now, when ever I try to go into applications such as ZSNES which utilize OpenGL, all I get is a tiny black box, then a black screen, & X crashes, returning me back to the login screen. This also happened for a while with X Screensaver, causing my session to log out every 5 to 10 minutes, which caused unsaved documents & installing upgrades to fail, I'd loose documents & broken packages would appear on the next logon. Also, when changing to a terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1, F2, F3, etc. (any key to switch to a terminal), I will get jumbled text which is tinted all sorts of colors, or a blotched image from my GUI login. Sometimes, it even crashes X! X also crashes when running Neverball, Quadrapassel, & any other OpenGL running application. I tried using a recovery console to log in, & I cou8ld lauch ZSNES, but only in low resolutions, & if I tried to make it fullscreen it would crash. If I go to Display under Settings in Xfce, & change the resolution to settings that worked in Lucid, such as 800x600, X crashes, & I had to reinstall Xubuntu to get it to work again. I know this is an ancient graphics card, but I managed to still get more of OpenGL to work. I also can't post any terminal output by running an application from the terminal, since by that time, X has already crashed. Please help, it would be appreciated!

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This might be bug 635362. savage is unusable in 10.10 without that patch.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please take a look at bug 635362 to see if this is a duplicate. Thank you.

[Mike L (mikerl)]

Hi Tormod,
     It seems it is a duplicate. I managed to fix the problem, however, by upgrading my Savage driver for Xorg from the one that comes with Maverick (1:2.3.1-2ubuntu2) to the latest one available on Debian's website (1:2.3.2-1). But this is not currently available in Ubuntu's repositories. The latest one off of Debian's site at least works, but OpenGL is slower than it was a few packages back, such as the default one that came with Lucid. The website is <http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-savage/>.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 635362, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.