Re: Old computer with Savage Video Help
On 31/01/14 16:31, Robert Crawford wrote:
> My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2400-S251 with Super Savage Video chip.
> It does have pae built in. 30 gb hd and 512 mb ram.
>
> Ubuntu above 12.04.3 has issues with the Savage video chip. Also it
> won't boot from USB drive.
<gently>
Debian != Ubuntu
Just warning you that there are significant differences.
>
> This what worked.,
<snipped>
This "just works" for me:-
# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-savage
Thinkpad T22 w. 512MB of RAM, happily running minimal KDE (on a trimmed
Debian Wheezy)
$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
# dmidecode | grep -i 'vendor\|family\|max speed\|maximum total'
Vendor: IBM
Family: Pentium III
Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 8, Stepping 10
Max Speed: 900 MHz
from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:-
[ 49.791] (==) Matched savage as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 49.791] (II) LoadModule: "savage"
[ 49.804] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so
[ 49.840] (II) Module savage: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 49.877] (II) SAVAGE: driver (version 2.3.4) for S3 Savage chipsets:
Savage4,
Savage3D, Savage3D-MV, Savage2000, Savage/MX-MV, Savage/MX,
Savage/IX-MV, Savage/IX, ProSavage PM133, ProSavage KM133,
Twister PN133, Twister KN133, SuperSavage/MX 128, SuperSavage/MX 64,
SuperSavage/MX 64C, SuperSavage/IX 128, SuperSavage/IX 128,
SuperSavage/IX 64, SuperSavage/IX 64, SuperSavage/IXC 64,
SuperSavage/IXC 64, ProSavage DDR, ProSavage DDR-K
[ 49.911] (II) SAVAGE(0): Creating default Display subsection in
Screen section
[ 49.911] (==) SAVAGE(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
[ 49.911] (==) SAVAGE(0): RGB weight 565
[ 49.911] (==) SAVAGE(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 49.911] (II) SAVAGE(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0
[ 49.911] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using XAA acceleration architecture
[ 49.911] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using HW cursor
[ 49.911] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using video BIOS to set modes
[ 49.947] (II) SAVAGE(0): initializing int10
[ 49.955] (II) SAVAGE(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
[ 49.956] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA BIOS detected
[ 49.956] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
[ 49.956] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 8192 kB
[ 49.957] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE OEM: S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS
[ 49.957] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
[ 49.957] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: S3 Incorporated.
[ 49.957] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: VBE 2.0
[ 49.957] (II) SAVAGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Rev 1.1
[ 49.957] (--) SAVAGE(0): Chip: id 8c12, "Savage/IX-MV"
[ 49.957] (--) SAVAGE(0): Engine: "MobileSavage"
[ 49.957] (--) SAVAGE(0): AGP card detected
[ 49.957] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using AGP DMA
[ 49.958] (II) SAVAGE(0): Savage3D/MX/IX does not support command DMA.
[ 49.958] (==) SAVAGE(0): Will try only vertex DMA mode
[ 49.958] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using AGP 1x mode
[ 49.958] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using 16 MB AGP aperture
[ 49.967] (==) SAVAGE(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 49.967] (--) SAVAGE(0): probed videoram: 8192k
[ 51.396] (--) SAVAGE(0): 1024x768 TFT LCD panel detected and active
[ 51.396] (--) SAVAGE(0): - Limiting video mode to 1024x768
[ 51.463] (--) SAVAGE(0): Found 13 modes at this depth:
[ 51.464] (II) SAVAGE(0): <default monitor>: Using hsync range of
31.50-47.82 kHz
[ 51.464] (II) SAVAGE(0): <default monitor>: Using vrefresh range of
56.00-59.92 Hz
[ 51.464] (II) SAVAGE(0): <default monitor>: Using maximum pixel
clock of 63.50 MHz
[ 51.464] (II) SAVAGE(0): Estimated virtual size for aspect ratio
1.3333 is 1024x768
[ 51.464] (II) SAVAGE(0): Clock range: 10.00 to 250.00 MHz
etc...
See:-
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/S3_Savage_IX8
http://man.flashnux.com/en/debian/6/6.0.1/man4/savage.4.html
Kind regards
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