for some reason i've been getting a lot of questions about this the last
couple of weeks. i guess the chips are starting to percolate out into
people's hands.
yes, i got it working (mostly). since i can't find the driver on the
S3graphics.com web site anymore (am i looking in the wrong place?),
i've put the information up for FTP on my own site. look at:
punchdown.org:pub/SuperSavage
i've attached the README from that directory.
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SuperSavage Video Driver
for IBM Thinkpad T23
and Toshiba Tecra 9000
October 14, 2001
This directory contains various bits i collected to get XFree86 v4.1.0
to run on my IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop with the S3 SuperSavage chipset.
This may work on the Tecras as well.
yes, i got it to work, mostly. i can't watch movies, and there are some
other oddball problems (for example, every once in awhile the pointer
stops working after a suspend/resume, or sometimes the pointer gets
into a strange mode where mouse clicks are delayed until the next mouse
movement occurs).
the XFree86 and S3 driver source diverged sometime in the past. it looks
like they split around xfree86 v4.0.99.3. there are bug fixes in the
xfree86 savage driver that aren't in the driver from S3. that's the
reason i haven't fed this back to the xfre86 folks yet. i hope to resolve
all of these issues, but haven't done anything in the last month.
Contents of pub/SuperSavage directory on punchdown.org:
10118_Src.zip -- SuperSavage driver source from s3graphics.com.
i can't find it on their site now, but maybe i'm
not looking in the right place.
savage_drv.o -- SuperSavage driver compiled for XFree86 v4.1.0
on Redhat Linux 7.1; after installing XFree86 v4.1.0
from xfree86.org, copy this to
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o
and try it; it may work.
xfree86.diff -- diff of my XFree86 v4.1.0 build area with new savage
driver (and configured for Redhat Linux 7.1)
good luck!
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