How to get video driver working with S3 Supersavage

Infasoft · 01-01-2009, 03:30 PM

Hello!
I have a IBM T23. I just recently got my wifi working,which was good but now i need my video drivers installed. I have a S3 Supersavage video card and have Solaris Express. How can i get my video card working? thank you!

paulsm4 · 01-01-2009, 05:18 PM

Jeez - how *old* is that thing?!?

There might be a link here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/

There might be something here:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/
http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/s86faq.html

And there's always Linux :-)
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
http://www.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/

Infasoft · 01-02-2009, 10:25 AM

thank you Paulsm for your reply. However i still cannot figure out how to enable my graphics card (S3 Supersavage) to run open-gl games such as Jake2,Tremulous,Sauerbraten,etc.I know for sure that my card works, because when i used windows, the graphics worked excellent. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!

paulsm4 · 01-02-2009, 04:42 PM

Q: What (if any) errors are you getting?

Q: Are you using Xorg? What version of XOrg?
Also: what is your OS and OS version?

Q: Assuming you've got Xorg, have you tried simple "vesa" mode? What happens?

Infasoft · 02-07-2009, 11:14 AM

I have OpenSolaris 2008.05. The driver manager program says that i have a driver named for S3 Supersavage IC/X (or IX/C) called: vgatext. And how do you enable simple vesa mode?