[Savage40] S3 Savage Pro+ on Debian Sarge (Stable)

[Tim Roberts]

richard wrote:

>On Thursday 31 August 2006 18:58, Tim Roberts wrote:
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>>There is no 3D acceleration for the Savages built-in to the 4.3.0
>>releases.  It's possible to add it on, but it might be easier just to
>>replace XFree86 4.3.0 (which is rather old) with X.Org.
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>Yes that is what I was thinking but what is best. 
>Add support to XF86 4.3.0
>Upgrade to XF86 4.6.0
>or install X.org
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XFree86 is dead.  All of the interesting development work is going on in
X.org.

>I have little experience working with linux so feel worried about compiling 
>and installing from source.
>

Doesn't Debian have a package manager?  You should be able to find a
more recent X.org release as a package upgrade.  Or, as another poster
suggested, start over with Ubuntu 6.0.  It is Debian-based, but seems to
do a much better job of "keeping up".  I've never been a Debian guy, but
I've become attached to Ubuntu.

However, before you go to the trouble, remember that the Savage 4 is an
8-year-old chip.  The 3D engine sucks.  Even after you go to this
trouble, it isn't going to be a screamer.  What are you hoping to do
with it?

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