From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 9 13: 4:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from studict.student.utwente.nl (studict.student.utwente.nl [130.89.220.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6006237B65C for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erik.post@student.utwente.nl) Received: from junglejim (cal14a061.student.utwente.nl [130.89.227.198]) by studict.student.utwente.nl (8.8.6/MQT) with SMTP id WAA13537; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 22:04:05 +0200 (METDST) Message-ID: <000301bfa25e$cb6b5de0$c6e35982@student.utwente.nl> From: "Erik Post" To: Cc: Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and S3-Savage4 (32MB PCI) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 22:04:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Mail ArchivesHi, (I'm not part of freebsd-questions as well, so ...) If you're using XFree86 4.0, you won't get the Savage4 running with its own driver. Currently, there's no 4.0 driver for any of the Savage cards, and it's not very clear when to expect one. XFree86 3.3.5 and 3.3.6 include Savage3D/4/2000 support in the SVGA server. Regards, Erik Post S3 Planet http://www.s3p.co.uk/ --- Original message --- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:22:34 +0200 (SAST) From: Jim Morrisby To: jmz@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86-4 and S3-Savage4 (32MB PCI) Message-ID: Hi there I am not part of the FreeBSD mailing list, if replys could please be mailed to : jim@nospam.saca.net (remove nospan to mail) Superprobe outputs the Follow (correct) information: First Video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 Savage4 (PCI Probed) Memory: 32768 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) I cannot find this card (S3 86C395 / 396 / 397 ) in any of the setups - namely XF86Setup or xf86config . The card gives a lower-than-hurcules-monochrome clock of 25.18 , which I am SURE is not right. When starting X however, I get this output.......... <----------snip---------> (--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Savage4 rev 2, Memory @ 0xf8000000, 0xe0000000 (--) SVGA: Unknown S3 chipset: chip_id = 0x8a22 rev. 2 (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (--) SVGA: videoram: 64K <-- Even when 32768K doesn't work! (**) SVGA: clocks: 25.18 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes (--) SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modifed because Virtual X !=1024 <----------snip---------> I am rather new to FreeBSD, so please be gentle. I do have a fir Linux background though. Any Ideas?? Please mail them to the above address Jim ------------------------------------------------------ if @1 [ ! STATUS=0 ] then loop fi ------------------------------------------------------- if at first you dont succeed, try , try , and try again! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message www@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message