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

[Alex Deucher]

--- richard <richard at tollyboy.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday 31 August 2006 18:58, Tim Roberts wrote:
> 
> Thanks Tim,
> 
> > What you mean is you cannot get 3D acceleration working.  2D
> > acceleration is working fine.
> 
> Yes 2D works
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes that is what I was thinking but what is best. 
> Add support to XF86 4.3.0
> Upgrade to XF86 4.6.0

No versions of Xfree86 support 3D accel.  This is only supported in
Xorg.

Alex

> or install X.org
> 
> I have little experience working with linux so feel worried about
> compiling 
> and installing from source.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard.
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