[Frugalware-bugs] xconfig freeze on a S3 Savage IX-MV

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Problem description: Installation > xconfig Resolution: 1024x768, DefaultDepth: 
16 When X starts up, xcursor appears on a screen which is full of vertical 
stripes. The screen then turns solid blue, in the middle there is a definite 
rectangle (approx 800x600 in size) which is black, with vertical white lines in 
it. From this point, there's no way back to console. Tried: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, 
Alt+SysRq, Ctrl+Alt+Fn, Ctrl+C... Installation stuck at this point, however, 
the machine did not freeze, because HDD activity was detected while trying to 
escape with the above key combos. Solution: Boot to runlevel 3, set the 
following parameter from "No" to "Yes" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Option "UseBIOS" 
"Yes" Reference URLs: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T21 The one including 
the solution: http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive57-2005-2-146636.html 
file:///usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/savage.4.html "Option "UseBIOS" "boolean" 
Enable or disable use of the video BIOS to change modes. Ordinarily, the savage 
driver tries to use the video BIOS to do mode switches. This generally produces 
the best results with the mobile chips (/MX and /IX), since the BIOS knows how 
to handle the critical but unusual timing requirements of the various LCD 
panels supported by the chip. To do this, the driver searches through the BIOS 
mode list, looking for the mode which most closely matches the xorg.conf mode 
line. Some purists find this scheme objectionable. If you would rather have the 
savage driver use your mode line timing exactly, turn off the UseBios option. 
Default: on (use the BIOS)." --- System details: Frugalware 0.4-pre1 i686 
netinstall/packages selected individually Kernel package 2.6.14-2 Xorg package 
6.8.2-7 Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T21 (Mobile PIII/800, i440BX chipset etc) VGA: 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13) 
(prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: IBM Thinkpad T20/T22 Control: I/O+ Mem+ 
BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- 
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- --- best 
regards, LGee

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