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

[Alex Deucher]

--- Bruno Melloni <zbruno at melloni.com> wrote:

> 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 K is identical the the regular DDK, it's just designed for AMD
systems instead of Intel.

> 
> The big problem is that the provided driver has no 3D acceleration 
> support.  Here are my questions:
> 
> 1) Is Suse using the Probo driver?

Depending on the version they are using either a patched up xfree86
4.3.0, or xorg 6.7 or 6.8.

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

it doesn't matter wich savage chip you choose.  they all use the same
driver and the driver will detect the chip type at run time.

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

Tim's driver only supports 2D and Xv acceleration.  if you want o 3d,
you'll need to grab the 2d driver from xorg cvs and the 3d driver from
mesa cvs:
binary snapshots are available here (note they may not be available ATM
since we are still recovering fro teh fd.o server break in):
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download
Buildig instructions (if you want to build from soruce):
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building


> 
> 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.

I don't know about Suse.  I've never used it.  Install xorg from source
though is pretty easy.

Alex



		
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