At 19:50:32 on Sunday Sunday 11 January 2009, "Rajko M." <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
On Sunday 11 January 2009 10:17:56 am Stan Goodman wrote:
hwinfo --gfxcard tells me that the card is "Savage IX/MV, revision 0x13". DriverInfo tells me that the server module is "savage", and there is an option: ShadowStatus".
# lspci -n
can reveal PCI ID for graphic driver, and that seems to be hexadecimal number next to the name. Though, those drivers are for windows. The Linux section contains only newer Chrome chipset drivers. I guess, the reason is that 'savage' driver is part of the kernel.
I have visited the S3 website (s3graphics.com), and find that "savage" drivers are grouped in a list under "Legacy" (a Politically Correct term meaning "Archeological"). Some of them are even for Linux (which is apparently what IX means, although that is not stated), but there is no obvious way for non-employees of S3 to identify which, if any, are plausible replacements of the one I have. Since what I have is what the installation chose as best, I am inclined to believe that there is none.
They are clear that there will be no newer drivers for legacy products, at least not from them http://www.s3graphics.com/en/resources/drivers/legacy/
The 'savage' driver is for quite old hardware. I had ProSavage 3D on original MoBo of this computer (2001), running under the same driver.
In any case it would be good to post /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log otherwise discussion can't give any useful result.
I don't have a way to save either xorg.conf or Xorg.0.log; the Rescue boot is unable to <find> any file with either name, and I have not yet found a way to set the OS to boot to level 3 -- though I feel sure that there is such a way.
The information in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411446 and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336302 is useful at least how to debug this.
I will certainly inspect them.
I recommend the Midnight Commander for fast finding and editing of configuration files.
And I'll see about Midnight Commander too.
-- Regards, Rajko
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