[Dri-users] Re: [Savage40] Savage DRI Installation and XFree86 keyboard

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:08:39 +0000
"Rommel Cid" <rom...@ho...> wrote:

> I have met strange results in making this thing work.
> 
> I have an ECS P4VMM2 motherboard, with an onboard ProSavage DDR chipset with 
> 32MB shared memory. I followed the instructions posted at 
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building and met no errors 
> during compilation and installation.
> 
> However, upon rebooting my machine and starting the graphical desktop, 
> curiously enough for me, the keyboard isn't working -- I had to restart X to 
> make it work.  After restarting XFree86, glxinfo says DRI support is 

Could you be more specific please? Do you mean, the keyboard is not
working at all? Was it working flawlessly after restarting X?

Anyway, I'm no expert for X input related problems. The Xserver in DRI
CVS may have bugs. It is a pre 4.4 snapshot from XFree86 CVS. That said,
I never had such problems myself.

> enabled. glxgears gives me 400fps up (at 16bpp, 1024x768).  Also, by this 
> time, my keyboard would start working.
> 
> My question is this: what do you think I have done wrong to bring about this 
> odd behavior? How do I fix it? If it can't be fixed, how do I undo it 
> without reinstalling my platform? For the record, I did the compilation 
> using Mandrake 9.2's stock kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) and XFree86 version 4.3.0. 
> I do not wish to reinstall the OS, as it would take a lot of time just to do 
> that.

You just need to reinstall the X-related packages, not the whole OS. 

> 
> Any help would surely be welcome. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rommel
> 

Regards,
  Felix