Thanks tim, and others who made useful comments, i downloaded the savage 1.1.23t driver (i haven't yet learnt how debian gets from a .deb file to ordinary linux files, so i just used the "linux" gzipped, tarred version - here are two minor newbie questions: (1) how do i open, read, etc a .deb file, (2) what's the unzipping command for .bz2 files, gunzip doesn't seem to handle them) copied it into the modules/ directory, and it works perfectly with my ProSavage DDR (chip 8d04). :))))
In case anyone's curious, the "vesa" driver from the 8-CD Deb3.0r0 version and 8bit depth resolution is successful in more or less getting an X server running, with partial mouse function. The picture quality is not that good, and the mouse has problems distinguishing a drag from a click, e.g. with pull-down menus i could only get the first option to function, so it's In any case, savage 1.1.23t works fine. (So far, at least... ) Now i'm looking how to get emacs 20.7 to (1) display different language fonts rather than just empty boxes :(, and (2) download otfried cheong's patch on emacs 20.* in order to get decent utf-8 (unicode) handling: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/1999-09/msg00140.html http://www.cs.uu.nl/~otfried/Mule/ i couldn't get dselect to install emacs 21.*, but since otfried's patch is on 20.*, i might as well stick to that anyway until emacs/mule can properly handle utf-8 (including input methods...) Anyway, i'm delighted to be part of the GNU/Linux users' community, it's just as supportive as i expected :) cheers boud On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Tim Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:49:46 +0200 (CEST), boud wrote: > > > >Hi, > > i wonder if someone could help me trying to detect my graphics device > >using XFree86 4.2.0 which i've installed with Woody from the 8 CD-ROMs. > > > >It seems that the X server cannot find the device - short extract from > >the log: > > PCI ID 8d04 is the ProSavage-DDR. This is a relatively new motherboard-based > entry into the Savage family. It did not exist when Xfree86 4.2.0 was > released, so the stock driver in XFree86 4.2.0, which is what you are running, > does not support it. > > Go fetch the 1.1.23t driver from my web site, > http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html. > > By the way, you might as well delete the module load lines for GLcore, dri, > glx, pex5, and xie. The latter two are obsolete, the first three have no > Savage support. > > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
