On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: >> >I've only found two posts with regard to the Savage chipset. XFree >> >supports acceleration for it, and I was wondering what I could do to get >> >started on making a driver for this thing? >> > >> >I figure I'll get a bunch of experience by helping to debug the Mach64 >> >driver (which I'm about to go get and try to get working on my mach64 >> >card). >> > >> >Any news/info about the Savage chipset? >> >> You will have to contact S3 and ask them for documentation. >> They don't to my knowledge seem too interested in Linux, but I >> could be wrong. >> >> That would be the first step anyway. > >It might also pay to get in touch with Tim Roberts, the author of the 2D >driver for the S3 Savage driver: > >http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
I am in touch with Tim fairly often actually. S3 has taken maintainership of the driver over now. Unfortunate for us IMHO, as Tim did a decent job of updating it. He has just recently updated it again (last few days), however IIRC he no longer has specifications, etc. for the hardware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
