[Savage40] Suse 9.2 & Pro Savage DDR (P4M266/Via8751)

Bruno Melloni zbruno at melloni.com
Fri Nov 26 22:12:42 PST 2004


I recently installed Suse 9.2.  It detected my chipset as "Pro Savage 
DDR-K" (curious, I did not see the K being anywere in the docs - other 
options are "Pro Savage DDR", "Pro Savage KM 133", "Pro Savage PM 
133").  The video displays correctly, although it tends to default to 
too high a refresh rate (easily fixed by changing it manually).

The big problem is that the provided driver has no 3D acceleration 
support.  Here are my questions:

1) Is Suse using the Probo driver?

2) Is the detected chipset correct?  Should I manually choose a 
different one?

3) Does the Probo driver support the full 2D, 3D and other accelerations 
available on the chip?

4) If I should download the probo driver, is it possible to find a 
binary RPM?  Suse 9.2 is so integrated that I suspect that if I update 
the configuration the "old way" it might just decide to overwrite it 
when it feels like it.

Thanks.


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