On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Hutton Daniel wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 > > Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been > > > relegated to Windows duty > > > > > > My 1 foray into the realm of the S3/Savage has made its appropriate > > home in my 'piece-of-shit' junkbox. > > It never even performed marginally even in windblows. > > > > > > Charles > > >Yeah...well...you're right. :0[ When I bought it there wasn't any > >thought of using it in Linux, and no idea that it would perform > >marginally in Windows. The price was right at the time. I'm pack-rat, > by > >genetics, so I feel obligated to still give it life. But, your right. > It > >should be guillotined, instead! > > >T > > > Well thanks for all your help guys. I was really pleased to get such a > quick response. I went to work on the machine last night and I tried > the Xtart thing and it failed, so I guess that means that the chipset > is not supported. I happened to have a newish Slackware disk with me > so I installed it to see how it would cope with the savage and it just > defaulted to the Vesa server and that worked fine, even with KDE > 3.1.0. I put the same setup on Mandrake using XFdrake and it worked > fine there too, no surprise. > > I don't really undrestand why Mandrake doesn't default in the same way > after not finding a suitable driver. Does the vesa server mean that > the card is not being used properly (or at all). I would think its > fine for an easy peasy newbie friendly installation if it just > defaults to vesa so at least people can have a look at the desktop and > be happy that the installation has gone ok. People who want to get the > maximum out of their graphics card will soon find out if it's not > being used properly and can go and fix it. I still didn't open the > case, the computer is not mine so I'll avoid doing that until I really > have to. > > Thanks once again for the help, hope I can be of help to you sometime. > Ciao, > Daniel Hutton >
Glad that you found a way to get it working. I did try using the Knoppix settings that did work on my particular setup (VESA) on the Mandrake XF86Config-4 and I couldn't get it to work. Someone on the expert list just posted a link to some archived posts that showed how the problem was fixed in the Savage series by transposing the savage driver from a RedHat 9.0 distro. Too bad that I've permanently demoted my S3 Savage 2000 card to Windows duty, it would be great to see if this worked for me, too. T
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