Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 15:30:51 +0000, john gennard wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> >There is one more quick thing that you can try: Go to
> >
> >http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
> >
> >and copy/paste your "lspci -n" output into the form. You will get a list
> >of known drivers for your hardware. Maybe you have to choose a different
> >driver to get best performance.
>
> I've done that now. The 'auto' search didn't work, but I was able
> to find in the database all the working drivers for a T20. The S3
> Savage card works with the 'savagefb' driver.
>
> However, I'll leave this for the time being as I now have a fully
> working install of Etch with Kde.
Just to make sure that you will not waste time later on: The savagefb
driver is a framebuffer driver which has nothing to do with X. It can be
used instead of the generic vesafb for the tty (non-X console) displays.
You probably have already seen Chris Bannister's recent post in this
thread; try the "s3" and the "s3virge" driver that he suggests in your
xorg.conf. (You need the packages xserver-xorg-video-s3 and
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge to have them available. Maybe these packages
were missing in your first install and that caused the problem with X.)
--
Regards,
Florian
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