Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> I am running debian-testing on linux 2.6.8 on an IBM T23 laptop.  This 
> system has been running for about 2 years.  I recently upgraded XFree86 
> to Xorg (running 7.0.0) and now my video card direct rendering has 
> stopped working.  I extracted the following lines from my Xorg logfile:
>
> ...
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "savage"
> (II) SAVAGE(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): DRI isn't enabled
> ...
>
> I searched the computer and savage.ko is nowhere to be found.  What's 
> the best way to obtain this module under debian?  I have a full kernel 
> source tree on the machine, but I don't know if it's part of the kernel 
> source or somewhere in X or what... I would be happy with a pointer to 
> some good documentation.. the stuff available on the dri.freedesktop.org 
> wiki is not very clear.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brandon


Do you have package:

xserver-xorg-video-savage

installed?

Arthur.