HOW do I install a driver...!??
I have a Compaq Presario 710US laptop with an S3 Twister graphics card; the first time I tried installing Debian (3.1), I picked the "s3" X server driver just because it sounded like it fit better than any of the others... but that caused some kind of huge error while starting GNOME, so I wiped off my hard drive and started over (anyone have a better way to do it)? This time I picked the "vesa" driver, which was selected by default. Now everything seems to work, except for the fact that there are only two choices in "Screen Resolution Preferences:" 800x600 and 640x480. 1024x768 is the only resolution that looks good on my screen (I told the installer that 1024x768 at 60 Hz was the "best" resolution my card could support). So I downloaded the only Linux driver I could find that was made just for an S3 Twister, extracted it to my Home folder, and went to newbiedoc.sourceforge.net to find out what to do with it. The directions said to type in "make" to compile the driver, so I did, and it gave me
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
(I WAS in the right folder, operating as root, if that helps.)
But then I realized that there was already a ".o" file (savage_drv.o), which was what "make" was supposed to create... so I went ahead to the next step: typing in "make install."
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
Am I doing something wrong?
Please help me!
P.S. I have tried Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Knoppix already, so I'm not a TOTAL newbie - I just don't have an infinite library of terminal commands like the rest of you Linux people do.
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