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#1 2007-06-01 20:22:20

jonathanbrickman0000
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Registered: 2007-06-01
Posts: 4

S3 ProSavageDDR P4M266 woes

This is motherboard shared-RAM hardware, on an Aopen motherboard, VIA chipset.  I have tried the the VESA, the fbdev, and the S3 Savage drivers; all of them fail (I installed them via pacman, thanks forum folks for posting that!).  hwd fails in peculiar fashion:

/usr/bin/mkxcfg:  line 293:  4867 Aborted       lshwd -a -ox -m > $LISTFILE

I have been trying xorgconfig with all three of those drivers, no dice.  In the case of the fbdev, /dev/fb0 is missing; the VESA doesn't work because it can't open three large memory areas; and when I try the Savage it says that DRI isn't enabled (what's DRI?). 

Anyone know what to try next?

J.E.B.

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#2 2007-06-29 21:05:59

Magician21
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Registered: 2007-03-23
Posts: 45

Re: S3 ProSavageDDR P4M266 woes

I run with the Savage driver on my laptop.  It drastically reduced my CPU usage in X.

A short description of DRI.
http://freenet-homepage.de/l.kanis/savage_dri.html

Make sure you install libgl-dri via pacman.
I believe I also installed mesa.

Try making the following changes are made to your xorg.conf file:

Uncomment the load line so that dri loads.
# This loads the DRI module
    Load       "dri"

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Savage Driver"
    Driver      "savage"
    #VideoRam    65536
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
(identifier can be anything, so long as it's being called out properly in the Screen section, like below)

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    #Device      "* Generic VESA compatible"
    Device      "Savage Driver"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 16

(at the end - uncomment this)
Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Hope this helps.

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