S3 savage now supported by x.org?

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Thu Apr 14 19:56:56 UTC 2005


Douglas Frank wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 3-4 months ago I was unable to move my laptop RH9->FC3 because of the
> changeover from xfree86 to x.org; the new X didn't support my "old"
> video chipset.  Today I re-visited the x.org site and followed links to
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/savage which, encouragingly, no longer says "no".
> But the man page link on that page is a 404.  Does anyone know any
> details?  Has some angel somewhere ported the old S3 Graphics drivers to
> the new X?  Is anyone out there running core 3 on a S3
> savage/prosavage/twister?  (and is X working? :-)
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Douglas Frank    HP Co.
> ZKO              110 Spit Brook Rd.       The older I get,
> 603-884-0501     Nashua, NH USA 03062       the better I was.
> 
> 
i've been running S3 ProSavageDDR K4M266 without any problem on fc3. 
FC4(T1+T2) do some small problems when init 5 and shutdown, but works 
flawlessy.

HTH
Roger




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