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Re: New Savage driver with unstable?



At Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:10:47 -0700,
Vineet Kumar wrote:
> 
> * Evan Simpson (evan@4-am.com) [030904 11:53]:
> > Has anyone on this list been able to compile the new Free
> > driver from S3 (http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip)?  I
> > have never built X before, but I downloaded the XFree86
> > 4.2.1-11 source package, applied the patch, and managed to
> > get most of it to compile.  Of course, the Savage driver was
> > the one part to fail :-(

I would be interested in getting this included in the Debian's X
packages.  It's nice to be able to play tuxracer and chromium on
my other computer (built-in Savage).  It's the first opensource
driver for the savage that supposedly provides hardware
acclerated 3D.

> What version of the driver are you trying?  I remember fiddling
> with it for a little while (never to the point of trying to
> compile X, though) before finding a deb (s3savage-driver),
> which is working just fine for me.  I've got 1.1.23t-1.  I
> don't remember where I got it, but I can send it your way if
> you want to give it a shot.

That is old.  The latest is 1.1.27t, which is the one included
afaik in the sid X.  The standalone drivers (source and binary)
can be downloaded from:

http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

IRC I once just copied over the binary into the proper xserver
module directory.



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