On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:21:55PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Richard Möhn wrote: >> But now to the problem: >> As far as I remember, I wrote in my graphics settings, that the card >> has to get a fixed size of RAM instead of doing that automatically. In >> addition I changed the driver from "savage" to "vesa" to get rid of >> the fancy cursor. > > You don't remember how much ram it wants, do you? Or is it mostly > immaterial so long as it is defined in xorg.conf? I've used 8 MB. But I don't think, that it is relevant. > Using the vesa driver did seem to make the booting more reliable, but it > also restricted me to uncomfortably low resolutions. Does it restrict you or are this just the settings? I also had too low resolutions and fixed it later in some way. > I have just found the thinkwiki page > (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/S3_Savage_IX8) on this adaptor. Not > entirely sure why I didn't before, though it doesn't seem to cover my > problem, or mention how much memory it wants. Have you set the settings as mentioned there? As I write this it occurs to me, that I also had turned of dri and glx support. You could experiment on turning them on after you got the whole working, nevertheless. With the best wishes Richard -- Richard Möhn, Laußnitz in Sachsen Public Key-ID: 4385C7FB Fingerprint: D74B F0D6 52BD C802 F5E2 B5BF 78AB 5563 4385 C7FB
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