Bug#276095: Incorrect X driver for S3 Inc VT8375

[Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no>]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:03:04PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> reassign 276095 discover1-data

Well I'm not so sure of that. I have some of these chips on 2 types of
notebooks, and has also configured a 3. type. 

> Bug#276095: Incorrect X driver for S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
> Bug reassigned from package `xdebconfigurator' to `discover1-data'.

Why should it use vesa. I have had some problems with the clock
frequency, and have therefor used vesa. And although vesa works fine,
the savage driver works better. But for 2 types of notebooks, the
savage-driver caused problems. The picture on the display would have
caused a headache after a short period of usage. 

But last night I found that adding 
 Option "UseBIOS" "False" in the savage driver section really helped. 

So please try with

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]"
        Driver          "savage"
        Option          "UseBIOS"            "False"
EndSection


Output from lspci: 
 root@dhcp11:~# lspci -s 1:0 -vvv 
 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8375
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Region 1: Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0
                Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x4
                Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x4
 root@dhcp11:~# lspci -s 1:0 -vn
 0000:01:00.0 0300: 5333:8d04
        Subsystem: 1071:8375
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0




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Finn-Arne Johansen 
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