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raoqn
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:50 am Post subject: how to use s3 card under gentoo? |
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thanks...
now i using vesa driver for my gentoo 
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chrispy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:10 am Post subject: |
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how did you configure X ?
try to run
and check if Xfree picks up the correct driver savage or s3 afaik
all ebuilds of Xfree incorporate savage drivers by default. |
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Older S3 cards are more difficult (Trio/Virge).
It's a lot of work but quite simple to use the Xfree 3.x S3 drivers in Xfree 4.x.
I've seen instructions in these forums. If you can't find them, I'll post them later today. |
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dreamer
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| AlterEgo wrote: | Older S3 cards are more difficult (Trio/Virge).
It's a lot of work but quite simple to use the Xfree 3.x S3 drivers in Xfree 4.x.
I've seen instructions in these forums. If you can't find them, I'll post them later today. |
Hi, i've seen those instructions as well, but i can't find them anymore. Could you post them?
thanks in advance! |
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Klovnen
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| AlterEgo wrote: | Older S3 cards are more difficult (Trio/Virge).
It's a lot of work but quite simple to use the Xfree 3.x S3 drivers in Xfree 4.x.
I've seen instructions in these forums. If you can't find them, I'll post them later today. |
i cant find them either. ive tried kompiling the xfree-3.3.6 ebuild from bugs and copy the interesting files, but it didnt work.
Can you please post them if you still have them? |
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Repeat 
I emerged --buildpkgonly Xfree 3.3.6 (ebuild; https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186 ), extracted the tarball and copied the X server to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3. Symlink this file to
/usr/X11R6/bin/X.
That's it, except you need your X-config file here: /etc/XF86Config instead of the usual location.
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Klovnen: I don't know about dual setups; never tried that.
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Klovnen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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this is supposed to work with xinerama, nvidia, glx and the like?
i get xinerama error |
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cetu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:49 am Post subject: |
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I can't believe it!
I got mit S3 Twister running on XFree 4.3 . I just had to insert the agpgart module correctly with included support for my AGP controller provided by the via_agp module and then follow these instructions:
http://sxs.thexdershome.com/guis/DRIS3.html
It worked with the savage.ko module available there.
But I wonder why I could not find the link to that site in these forums but had to look for it at google.
I hope I've helped you! |
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Gnufsh
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For S3 savage cards, you can get 3d hardware acceleration support using the DRI cvs, just follow the instructions here:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building
and remember to add savage to the appropriate place in host.def so te driver gets built. Then install, modprobe the savage drm module that you built, and change the driver line to savage.
raoqn, do you know which S3 card you have? |
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