Savage Drivers

[Eric Feliksik]

Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a ThinkPad T23, with a savage-chip of some sort (HAL Device
> Manager says SuperSavage IX/C SDR). There is a Savage DRI driver that is
> supposed to work with Xorg, although I've heard it may be a little
> buggy. Does anybody know what the current status is, and if/when we may
> see this in Ubuntu? I'm running Hoary, so if there is some experimental
> package out there I don't mind toying around with it..
> 
> ++Lorenzo; 
> 
> 

If everything's alright Ubuntu detected your driver automatically. It's 
called "savage", and it's only suitable for 2d.

If you want 3d acceleration as well, you need the DRI drivers, which are 
in development, but work for me. See:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdri and
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

But it looks like the snapshots are not available. You can get them from 
cvs or have some patience.

Not that you have to run a cpu-optimized kernel (so not the default 
i386) and a link "build" in /lib/modules/your_optimized_kernel/ that 
points to the source of your kernel in /usr/src/your_source

Good luck.

Eric Feliksik