Hey Tormod, I'm setting up an old Acer Aspire 1300 with the S3 Savage chip in it. I added your PPA to my sources.list to test and installed your version of the Xorg server + drivers. I rebooted single user, ran Xorg -configure and I edited xorg.conf to only contain an entry for the savage driver so as to avoid accidental "it works!" while you're unconsciously running vesa or something else.
I specified only Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" and not DisableTile. I can confirm the graphics work. Without an Xorg.conf, graphics won't work and are gibberish. I'm not familiar with these cards experience wise, but it seems slow, draging windows is jerky and scrolling too. If you want me to check a few things, let me know! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-savage in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083032 Title: Video driver not working for Savage chipset Status in “xserver-xorg-video-savage” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When installing 12.10 on our Thinkpad T22 laptops the display does not work. 12.04 works fine. xserver-xorg-video-s3 is version 1:0.6.5-0ubuntu1 xserver-xorg-video-savage is version 1:2.3.6-0ubuntu1 I don't know if these are the packages involved but they are the ones that I suspect may be involved. This T22 model (and many other thinkpads from that era) use the "S3 Savage IX8" chipsets. Using the info from this link makes the display work. ===== http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/thinkpad/T23_F17.html Xorg :1 -configure # ignore Configuration Failed message cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: uncomment Option "DisableTile" in the Section "Device" that contains the Savage driver options. ============ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-savage/+bug/1083032/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
