[Savage40] Installing new savage drivers to turn on 3D

[Alex Deucher]

--- Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at bioc.unizh.ch> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have installed SUSE 10.0 on my laptop Thinkpad T23 with Savage4.
> Xorg
> version: 6.8.2 Kernel: 2.6.13-15
> 
> Now I want to use the 3D accelaration and so I have downloaded the 
> snapshot:
>
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/savage-20050718-linux.i386.tar.bz2
> 
> I have unpacked it and seen that it contains the files
> "savage/savage_dri.so" and "savage/savage_drv.o". Is it enough if I
> move
> those files to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/" and
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/", respectively? Or, do I have to
> execute 
> the script "install.sh"?
> 
> What changes do I need then to make to the file xorg.conf?
> 
> I would be very grateful if someone helped me out.

You'll also need to grab the common snapshot.  You will need to run the
install script in order to build a drm for your kernel.  Without the
drm 3d accel won't work.  As far as the xorg.conf goes, make sure you
load the dri and glx modules.

Alex

> 
> Many thanks,
> 
>           Gianluca
> 
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