On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:44:53PM -0500, John Franck wrote: > I have a Savage4 graphics card. I am trying to run X on my computer, but > don't want to use VGA16. I downloaded the latest version of X 3.3.5, which > was supposed to support Savage4 for Linux, but was unable to find it in the > supported card list. Does anyone know what I can do to get this to work?? > --Any help or success stories would be much appreciated. Did you upgrade to 3.3.5 proper, or just install a newer X server binary? If you did the latter, the X configuration tools will still be the old ones, and not know about support for the Savage4. If you know which server the support for that card is built into, you should be able to use the old config tools and just lie to them about what card you have. As an example, when I first installed slink, I needed to upgrade my X server to 3.3.3 to get support for my G200 (slink had 3.3.2), so I just grabbed the new 3.3.3 X SVGA binary from xfree86.org and copied it over the old binary. Then I ran the config tools and told them I had a Matrox Millenium (which would use a similar setup to a G200) and everything worked fine. You will run into problems doing this trick if you choose a card which is drastically different from your Savage4 though, such as picking a card with a weird RAMDAC or something. Your best bet would be to find out if X 3.3.5 is available as a set of Debian packages from somewhere, and upgrade using apt. -- [ Matthew Gregan ] [ GPG ID: B63A1E95 ] [ kinetik@ihug.co.nz ] [ GPG fingerprint: FB83 2911 F170 B31C 9E4A E382 CA8A A2F6 B63A 1E95 ]
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