[Savage40] Better Driver Out There

[Tim Roberts]

Well, folks, it appears that my Savage driver is now a LONG ways from the state 
of the art.  I am no longer "da man".

Unbeknownst to me, VIA/S3 have been quietly bulking up their snapshot of the 
Savage driver.  Recently, they were persuaded to release their driver to the 
world in source form:

  http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip

I have not tried to compile this yet, but based on a quick perusal of the 
source code, it looks like it:

 * Supports all of the Savage chips
 * Supports video4linux for videoport/zoomvideo
 * Supports the Chrontel TV part on ProSavageDDR motherboards
 * Supports MPEG motion compensation acceleration (XvMC)
and (drum roll, please):
 * Supports DRI and OpenGL

They have made so many changes that it is almost impossible for me to determine 
whether all of my recent fixes are in their code, but given the thoroughness I 
see in other places, I suspect that they are.

So, if you have the inclination and ability to build from source, it would be 
well worth your trouble to give this a try.  If you do build binaries for 
either 4.2.0 or 4.3.0, let me know and I will announce it to this list.

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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.