[olug] DIT 1.1GHz Video Setup

[Jonathan Warren]

My only suggestion is if the X server is unstable boot to run level 3 and shut X down when your away.  Otherwise keep in touch with the developer and get his advice / releases when they become available.  Are they closed source drivers?

-Jon Warren

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:00:44AM -0500, Joe Noble wrote:
> Follow-up:
> 
> Left the machine running overnight.  Awoke and found the screen saver 
> had hung.  The screen saver was running fine when I went to bed.  Had to 
> turn power off, which is not a good thing.  Will try playing with 
> options in the Xconfig file this weekend.  The person developing the 
> driver said something like this might happen since the driver is the 
> first version to support this card.
> 
> Has anyone configured this DIT 1.1 system?  Anyone had similar 
> experiences? Any suggestions on what options to turn on or off?  DIT 
> told me some people in the area had got Linux to work on this system 
> before I bought it.
> 
> Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VKML
> Video Card: S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR
> 
> THANKS
> -joe-
> 
> 
> Joe Noble wrote:
> 
> > Put the driver in the proper place, modified the xconfig file to use the 
> > new savage driver and it came up working like a champ.  So it looks good.
> > 
> > THANKS
> > -joe-
> > 
> > Daniel Pfile wrote:
> > 
> >> Ok, so you found the driver. Did you install it and get it to work?
> >>
> >> http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html#newbie
> >>
> >> seems pretty good. let us know if you're stuck and we can try to help
> >> out.
> 
> 
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