Re: Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-22 Thread csj
Maybe it's because you're using woody. Potatoes should be more edible :) On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Chris Gray wrote: OK. I've installed woody on my home system and set up X with the SVGA server and it works fine, but I still have the same problem I had under slink: when I exit the Xserver in any

Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-21 Thread Chris Gray
OK. I've installed woody on my home system and set up X with the SVGA server and it works fine, but I still have the same problem I had under slink: when I exit the Xserver in any way (Alt+Ctl+F#, Alt+Ctl+Backspace, Logout, Restart the window manager) the screen goes black with the click of the

Re: Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-21 Thread Erik Steffl
you might want to try the vga16 server, just to see if the same behaviour occurs when only basic vga functionality is used, I think that most cards work with this server fine... it's not a long term solution, of course... erik Chris Gray wrote: OK. I've installed woody on my home

Re: Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-21 Thread Chris Gray
Yes. The vga16 server works fine; it starts and shuts down without crashing the system. Only the svga server crashes at shut down. I've also discovered that I can change window managers without crashing. Chris On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: you might want to try the vga16 server,

Re: Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-21 Thread Erik Steffl
well, I'd go and get some 'well-defined' video card... you might want to try to disable the various advanced features (acceleration etc...)... is the chip autodetected? if it is and it still does not work that you might be out of luck. if you specify the exact chip somewhere you might want