I have been having troubles with my video card. I have tried many things, but the current driver for it is the generic vesa driver if im correct in getting that information from the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I was looking through my drivers directories and saw s3 drivers. I was going to try to use one of those but i dont know where to start. I tried the command insmod s3_drv.o and then use the modprode command to use it. I dont even know how to do that but i have been reading on linux modules and lkm's for the past hour. I got an error saying: s3_drv.o: couldn;t find the kernel version the module was compiled for. Anyway im using Slackware 10.1 and my problem is that everything is too big, and i tried changing the display settings but everthing is still too big. Hope thats enough information, thanks for any help or information.

Have you tryed enabling agpgart module in the kernel?

Also I foung this for you:
http://members.driverguide.com/drive...riverid=204699

I dont know what agpgart is, what does it do. I have been messing with xorgconfig and been changing things. I have a different driver choosen but I think i have the wrong monitor settings because every time i startx the system locks up on me doing nothing and i have to restart. That driver at that site was only for windows systems not linux, i dont know why it even mentioned linux.

Post what kernel version you have. Also the output of this command:

lsmod

West

lsmod:
Module
snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss
uhci
ehci-hcd
usbcore
snd-bia82xx
gameport
snd-ac97-codec
snd-pcm
snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart
snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device
snd
snd-page-alloc
soundcore
via-rhine
mii
crc32
pcmcia_core
ide-scds

My kernel version is 2.4.29, I didnt post wether or not the module was used or not, if you need to know just ask. Thanks for helping so far, I have been still messing around with the xorgconfig file. I think the driver i have just sucks for the card, I'm not saying the video card isnt cheap but i think it can display things better than it does. Its an S3 savage just in case i didnt mention that before. Thanks again

Yea nevermind, I'm pretty sure i have the right drivers for the card. The driver is the savage_drv.o driver. I have been playing with the resolution and color bit rate for the last couple of hours and I think the limitations of the card have been met, and well those limitations are crappy ones. So I think im going to break down and buy a different card with more know drivers like nvidia or ati. Anyway thanks for the help and if you have anything else to mention I would be interesteh. Thanks again

Hi,
Just now had a motherboard fail, bought a new one. My old Matrox G200 would not fit in the new-style AGP slot, so I put in a Diamond Stealth III S540 which I happened to have lying around. Looks to me like it is the same card.

I found out that it seems to work tolerably well with the plain S3 savage support. I ran xorgconfig and chose that, and the entry in xorg.conf looks like this:

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
Identifier "** S3 Savage (generic) [savage]"
Driver "savage"
#VideoRam 32768
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

I am running a patched-up mixture of Slackware 10.1 and 10.2 and man X says at the bottom of the manpage that it is version 6.7.0. Running kernel 2.6.10 right now, with module support for AGP. From cat /proc/modules the apparently relevant line is

amd64_agp 9096 1 - Live 0xe0dea000

With this card and a now-old IBM C72 monitor, I get 1280x1024 resolution at 24-bit color, so it would seem it is all working well enough to suit me.

Sorry this will probably not help the original poster. Too late. But I put this note here in case someone else comes along and looks for this thread.

Theodore Kilgore