From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 11 23:10: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866A837B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pinky.plambert.net (pinky.plambert.net [205.219.88.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C8C6E30A3 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from plambert@localhost) by pinky.plambert.net (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0C78bU57959 for mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plambert) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:08:37 -0800 From: "Paul M . Lambert" To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone having luck with XFree86 4.0.2 on a Savage/MX (Toshiba Tecra 8100)? Message-ID: <20010111230837.D316@pinky.plambert.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Long, Scott wrote: > Only recently did the XFree86-4 port actually build the Savage driver. > Though I dont' have a Tecra 8100, on my HP Pavillion 5190 w/Savage IX-MV, > 4.0.2 worked ok with the standard vesa driver, although it was slow. You > might want to check what driver X is actually using. If it is using vesa > you might try updating the XFree-4 port and rebuilding, or you can go to > http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html for a prebuilt driver and/or updated > sources from what is in the 4.0.2 distribution. That is what I use and it > works great, except for DGA mode which the author acknowledges is > experimental. > > Scott The Savage driver was built correctly, and that's what I was trying to use. I grabbed the binary from the page you mention (many thanks to the author!) and it worked. I'm going to rebuild with the source (I'm a bit of a build-from-source snob sometimes) and see how it goes. --plambert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message