Owen Taylor wrote: > > > > "Mikael Olenfalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Xperts! > > > > > > I bought a Compaq EVO n115 some time ago, and I just felt like > > exchanging this ***** Windows XP Home with a little bit more powerful > > GNU/Linux and - of course - XFree86 ;). > > > > Just everything went fine until I came to configuring XFree86. > > > > It was even impossible for me to startup the graphical configuration > > system. > > > > Every time I launched X it told me I have a S3 card but XF86 can't > > recognize the CARD ID (i.e. unsupported card). > > > > When I later installed XP Home again :( I can see in Windows that the > > card is referred to as "S3 Graphics Twister K Compaq". > > > > A few days ago I have to call the Compaq support, as my laptop used to > > overheat and turn off after some hours of work (less than 5). I referred > > my problem to him - without expecting any proper answer ;) - about the > > missing driver for XF86 for the S3 Card/Chip. This guy was funnily > > enough amused by my problem as the specs showed him, that they do not > > deliver S3 cards with their evo n115 laptops. The specs says I (uu-huuh) > > have a "VIA ProSavage KN133". > > > > > > Does anybody know what shall I do to get my S3 Graphics Twister K Compaq > > card to work in XF86? > > VIA bought S3 some time ago, explaining the name discrepancy. > > Relevant information for figuring out why it isn't identified > would be: > > - The version of XFree86 (and the version of your distribution) > - The PCI ID of the card. (/sbin/lspci -v will give you that.) > > The current Savage driver lists a large number of PCI ID's for > various cards, but it would not be inconceivable that what > you have is a special version for Compaq with yet a differen > PCI ID... such things are known to happen. > > (You might also want to try checking if the "savage" driver > is explicitely listed in your XF86Config-4 as a simple > first step; if not, listing it could conceivably help.)
And the Savage driver web page is at: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html You can check the log file reported PCI id against the listed chipsets on that page. -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
