hi

this is what i need to do:
Enable the following items in the kernel configuration menu as modules:

Character devices:
/dev/agpgart (AGP support)
VIA Chipset Support
Direct Rendering Manager (XFree DRI Support)
S3 Savage

do i need to recompile the whole kernel after doing this or can this be done faster?
because compiling the kernel takes about 2 hours on my laptop ...

(kernel 2.6.8 on debian)

grtz

If you go back and change the kernel configuration, only the files that need to be changed will be compiled (or re-compilied). Just be sure to go through all the install steps so everything gets copied over.

If you had compiled the kernel your working on then what Hangdog42 said is correct, the compile time shouldent be long at all. Are you using the origonal kernel with the distro or have you compiled it once already?

i've compiled it once already

but another problem came up.
i need to set these in the kernel configuration menu:
Character devices:
/dev/agpgart (AGP support)
VIA Chipset Support
Direct Rendering Manager (XFree DRI Support)
S3 Savage

i can set all except S3 Savage.
there is no S3 Savage option in the kernel configuration menu :s

these are the only files that i found of my S3 chipset on the internet:
libsavageXvMC.so.1.0 in /usr/X11R6/lib
savage_drv.o in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
savage_dri.so in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri

i hope anyone can help me

grtz

I believe that you will select your S3 Savage when you configure your X system. In Slackware you just run the xorgconfig script, but there may be a different way to do it in Debian. You might want to do a little searching for configuring X in Debian.

ok
i ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
set everything (graphics chip to savage etc.)
settings were written to the configuration file.

i restarted the xserver

then i ran glxinfo

glxinfo echoed this error on line 3
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".


this is the complete glxinfo output if it may be useful:
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x22 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x23 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

I hate to say it, but this could get difficult. I did a little googling on your error, and there is a TON of advice out there, including a lot of contradictory advice. About the best initial test of things I found here. Given that this is likely to stray well outside the origianl topic of this thread, and that it is likely to involve a lot of Debian specific advice, I would start a new thread in the Debian forum and see if you can get some better advice that I can give you.