On 13/09/05, BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net> wrote:
Paul, I don't want to sound like the pessimist here, but I'm guessing you are not going to have any luck in getting the dri working on that chipset. I recently put together a system that had the Savage graphics on it. After doing a lot of research, I found that it was just not going to happen! 2d is fine and Sax2 works well to get you there, but for some reason, nobody has bothered to take it further.
Now you might find a 3rd party graphics developer's files better able to help, if you just gotta have 3d, but I think that is going to be the only way. Sorry to add more bad news to your efforts.
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Well, I do know that it is possible, in gentoo I wouldn't have even needed to post to a list as there's plenty of info out there how to get it working by recompiling the kernel, xorg, mesa and dri. I'm just trying to do it without breaking future YaST updates as much as possible. It's the suse angle that's making this such a challenge. 3D isn't a big deal, I've been using suse since 9.0 on my laptop when I finally dumped windows altogether and I've never missed 3d. But I hate being defeated when I know success is a possibility. This is really more of a learning experience than anything else. I'll let you know if I get it working, and what I had to do. Maybe we should try to get the OpenSuSE guys to compile the savage driver along with the rest? Ciao -- Paul