Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:56:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Driver for S3 Savage2000 video chipset? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007171055520.23823-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <39730D76.7B45954@eng.ufl.edu>
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You will need to compile your X from source, and enable the driver in the proper makefile.. and even then I have a friend that was using this chip, and the driver wouldn't work properly for him at all.. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Bob Johnson wrote: > > We got a batch of new systems that have Diamond Multimedia Viper II Z200 > video cards. They use the S3 Savage2000 chipset. > > An office mate got his running X on Red Hat Linux after a bit of struggle, > but even when I copy the video settings from his XF86Config, I get bad > scan rates in FreeBSD-STABLE (I used the 20000714 snapshot). We are > using identical hardware. > > XFree86 complains that the chipset is unrecognized, leading me to > believe that I need to update my driver: > > SVGA: Unknown S3 chipset: chip_id = 0x9102 rev. 2 > SVGA: chipset: generic > > Do I need to be trying to find a more recent driver, or do I need to > keep looking for a mistake in my XF86Config? > > > - Bob > -- > ********************************************************* > Bob Johnson Senior Systems Programmer > bob@eng.ufl.edu College of Engineering > 523 Weil Hall > 352-392-9217 Office University of Florida > 352-392-7063 Fax Gainesville, FL 32611 > ********************************************************* > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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