X freezes on Laptop with Savage MX/IX

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 01:15, Boris Hollas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> my X-server frequently freezes after startx or after shutting X down.
> X shows some normal messages on the screen, but doesn´t create a
> log-file. Then, the system wouldn´t respond anymore and I have to switch
> it off. If it doesn´t freeze, X works without any problems.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an Omnibook XE3 with Savage MX/IX graphics,
> XFree86-Server-4.3.0_14 and driver "savage". Option "NoAccel" didn´t
> help.
> 
> This problem has been present since the motherboard was exchanged.
> The graphics chip is still a Savage MX/IX. There are no problems with
> Windows.

While I can't say anything concrete about this, some people have cleared
up weird issues like this by moving to 5.3.

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