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

[Steve VanDevender]

Joachim Frieben writes:
 > As Tim said, no luck with "Debian 3.1 Sarge". You may want to consider
 > migrating to "Ubuntu Linux 6.0.6.1" which is based on "Debian" and whose
 > "Xorg" 7.0 supports 3D acceleration for the "savage" driver out of the box!

The Savage chipset doesn't have 3D hardware acceleration.

Debian "etch" 4.0 will also use the X.org server.  I have updated some
of my less critical systems to the pre-release version of etch and it
seems pretty decent.  It also converted my XFree86 configuration
automatically without breaking it (although it did need a little editing
to fix up font paths).

There is also http://www.backports.org/ which supplies some backports
of newer software for Debian stable.  Although it looks like they are
currently on X.org 6.9 instead of 7.0.

 > > Debian runs XFree86 4.3.0 not Xorg
 > > this version of XFree comes with the savage driver 1.1.27t Savage
 > > driver After a great deal of editing I have manage to get it working at
 > > 1600x1200 24  bit colour but I cannot get acceleration working on this
 > > card. Glxgears shows  70 fps.