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

[richard]

On Friday 01 September 2006 17:16, Richard wrote:

> XFree86 is dead.  All of the interesting development work is going on in
> X.org.

OK Thanks.

> 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.

Yes but there is no Xorg for Sarge so it would involve mixing testing / 
unstable with the stable Sarge release and I didn't think that would be a 
good idea, or  building from source. So I am starting over with the next 
release of Debian etch downloading now.

> 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?

Drive Varicad, I only put it in because the old ATI on board graphics died and 
I can't afford a new system. I thought I might as well get as much out of it 
as I can.

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Regards

Richard.