Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:23:53PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> <trimmed>
> >
> > mhhh... I don't have a "Savage Video Cards" section, I am compiling from
> > 2.6.8 sources, should I use newer ones?.. but still asking myself why it
> > worked..
> > going crazy with this!
>
> Yep. You need to upgrade. The 2.6.8 Kernel doesn't support this Video Card.
> I am using the 2.6.17-2 kernel now. Works fine.
>
> I had tried the 2.4 Sarge Kernel. (don't remember the exact version number
> though). The 2.4 kernel used to work fine. Maybe this explains why everything
> was working fine previously.
> But the 2.6.8 kernel (The unstable kernel on the Sarge CD) doesn't support
> the "savage" module.
Just installed Sarge (3.1r1 CD's) with 2.6.8 kernel on a machine with
that video card and the savage driver worked. The s3 driver would NOT
work.
--
Chris.
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