[Savage40] Savage Frame Buffer

[Tim Roberts]

holborn wrote:

>I have S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 02) card and  I use the card TV-out with mplayer 
>xv or x11 ... 
>
>but no way for me to use TV-Out with framebuffer or VESA, anyway with fb seems 
>a sync problem ... anyone knows how to do it?  or if it's possible? 
>  
>

It is an interesting request.  However, s3switch should work with a 
console framebuffer, even without X.  All it does is VESA BIOS calls.

>Also I have another question, i use s3switch linux binaires:
>
>p7:~# s3switch tv pal
>Devices attached:  TV
>Devices active:    TV
>Current TV format is NTSC-J
>
>Savage4 cant manage that? ... seems X11 driver can do it:
>(**) SAVAGE(0): TV enabled in PAL format
>  
>

Some board manufacturers do not follow S3's internal BIOS specification, 
and so the TV format request does not always return meaningful 
information.  It is likely that it actually IS in PAL format, but 
s3switch doesn't know how to ask.

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