[Savage40] Newbie Alert !

[Alex Deucher]

--- nick <nick at polyprecords.com> wrote:

> Hi - 
> 
> Just to introduce my self as "Nick"...
> 
> I've been a linux user for a fair few years - I am by no means a
> kernel 
> hacker- but I am fairly clued up about the whole shebang im running
> two 
> Gentoo machines a "Libranet" and a "Xandros" distributions. And Im
> not too 
> shy of gettting my hands dirty.
> 
> So why am I here? well I've got a lovely IBM Thinkpad T22 running
> Xandros 2.0 
> (desktop) - I just cant seem so squeeze 3D acelleration out of the
> thing.
> 
> My hardware from lspci 
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV
> (rev 13)
> 
> lspci -n
> 
> reports it as
> 
> 01:00.0 Class 030: 5333:8c12 (rev 13)
> 
> Xfree seems to report as a MobileSavage.
> 
> 
> So my question is am I floggging a dead horse or is it possible to
> get GL 
> running on this thing? 
> 
> Just looking for hints and tips at the moment -- what combination of 
> source-code packages should I use to get this up and running?
> 
> Nick (hoping im not posting to the wrong list or something - but any
> pointers 
> are good !)
> 

GL is suppored on all savages except the savage 2000. however the
current DRM is not secure so none of it is enabled by default in either
Xorg or the kernel.  You have two options:

1. Build xorg/mesa from source:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building
2. grab the nightly binary snapshots:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download

Alex




		
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