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Fedora, XFree86-4.3, S3 ProSavage 8 issue
Hi guys,
I m trying to get the "savage" driver working on my Aspire 1350 laptop for 2 weeks now. The laptop, have a VIA chipset. output of lspci : Quote:
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Have read lots of How-To about this, but after some investigations, i find out that the agpgart module was not loaded. So i try to load it with insmod agpgart apg_try_unsupported=1 and it output me this : Quote:
Could someone help to get the driver working... |
You will need to get the first pci device in your list working first, the Host Bridge.
The agp is driven after that one. Your local file /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids needs to be updated with newer numbers. try http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ |
First thx for your reply.
oky, i have updated the pciids file, and the "lspci" command looks better, but till no agpgart module and no "savage" driver too. output of lspci with the new pciids file : Quote:
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insmod is for just one module at a time..
try modprobe agpgart This will add dependent modules as well.. I also recommend running the XConfigurator again so that the hardware is re-identified.. As root do XFree86 -configure and make a note of the successful file made. |
i used modprobe too and the same message appear in "dmesg".
XFree86 -configure did not detect my video card, it till use the generic vesa driver, and have droped my usb mouse by the way :). I did not try with savage driver, i guess if i got no agp module working there's no chance to have the driver working, no?. sorry but i m most used with network service than driver and hardware. |
Ok, try the modules from http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=296#km400 for your KM400 chipset.
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Hi, i did not find the Fedora's drivers on this page (and no source to compile for KM400) , and i don't know if the driver will works on the distro i m running.
So i do one step back, and i ve installed Redhat 9 to get all chances on my side :D I took the KMFX40034. zip. The KMFX40038's coment say it's for RH9 too but the folder tree in the archive seams to have been build for MDK9. ??? The installation script worked just like charm. Xfree86 - configuration has detected my cards and selected the "via" driver for it. GREAT BUT, the screen of the laptop stay totaly black when i load XFree. Xfree did not Hang, and all panel process are there, but no way to get the Screen back without a reboot even by killing X. I tryed with the CRT output too, and the same happened. I ve checked the XFree86 logs and good news, it find the Card and load it at first view :) I think we get closer :D. the log ends on that : Quote:
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Some news has arrived ....
After some searching on the net i found my problem on bugzilla. http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=813 But, i did not understand how they can get it working... as far as i did not find any source for the module :( May you take a look ? |
Well, I got my ASPIRE 1200 laptop screen going by selecting the vesa driver instead of savage or via...
Now just to play with the settings and get the resolution & TV-out worked out... I'll have a look at that link and report back... :) |
Well yes, it works with Vesa driver a 1024x768, but without
"2D Hardware Acceleration", i mean poor Video Overlay quality. and no TV out. but u just learn me there's a way to get the tv out with the vesa driver , i ll do some reshearch on this way. |
Ok, the patch exists in the cvs version of XFree86 @ http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs
The actual patch code is at http://bugs.xfree86.org/attachment.c...action=viewall Choices are to use the cvs version of XFree86 and build it again, or to wait until XFree86-4.4 is released, which looks quite soon... edit... It IS available.. :) http://www.xfree86.org/#newrel |
Mate, big thx for your support
now i ll try to install the 4.4 :) |
It's quite easy, type "make world"..
But you'll need quite a few extra header & -dev packages installed. They will pop up in the make errors, but once installed you can continue from the last build point... |
Not so easy, hehe :)
i ve downloaded the 7 archives, and unpacked them into /usr/src/xc then make world (no error) make install (no error) and configure Xfree. At the first restart of X, X crashed because of somethink fucked up with my fonts. Finaly i get a Xfree back by copying the fonts from a other machine running X I got no glxinfo (error about a missing .so). No tv out :( (but well configured) Anyway it looks like i did something wrong somewhere ;) |
Ok, I'll give it a try too.. hehe ;)
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