Bug 8189 – XFree Savage IX/MV driver

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Julien Ponge 2002-09-21 11:22:51 UTC]

Hello, 
 
I have a laptop using this video card. I never had a problem when it was 
running a Mandrake or a Debian, but I was really suprised to find that the 
driver not included in the Gentoo. I tried downloading the driver 
(savage_drv.o) but it does not work at all. I checked all the file permissions 
and so on, but it just don't work. I guess the driver source code should be 
patched on the XFree source code. I have contacted the driver author, but he 
never replied ... 
 
Thank you very much.

[Comment 1 Julien Ponge 2002-09-21 11:29:08 UTC]

I forgot to mention some useful things : 
- GCC 3.2 
- XFree 4.2.0-r12 
- works with the vesa driver, but it *really* suck ... 
- s3switch is available under Gentoo (used to switch from the lcd/vga/lcd+vga) 
- the driver is officialy supported by S3 

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-21 13:35:57 UTC]

Try 4.2.1.

[Comment 3 Julien Ponge 2002-09-21 13:40:20 UTC]

Is it included in 4.2.1 ? I'm very busy and need to work with this laptop, so 
I'm only willing to emerge it if there's the driver in it. By the way, is 
there any risk with Xfree 4.2.1 ? 
 
Thanks a lot for your help. 

[Comment 4 Julien Ponge 2002-09-21 14:10:32 UTC]

Ok, I could find a working savage_drv.o file on another Gentoo box. So this 
can be considered as fixed :-) 
 
Anyway I can't see why it was not build on my laptop ...