On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 09:05 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:

> Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> I found this on the web:
>>> Hi, in the XF86Config file (I forgot the exact name on 7.2 but its in
>>> /etc/ or /etc/X11 make sure its the one to use for _your_ version of
>>> Xserver,)
>>> in the Device section put option
>>>        Driver      "vesa"
>>> it worked for me... all the best.
>>> Spundun
>>> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 04:23, K.C. Ramakrishna wrote:
>>> > Hi, >>Could you get S3 ProSavageDDR to work with Linux? Have >the 
>>> configuration but my version of Linux is 7.2 >I just can't get it to 
>>> work. >Will be a great help if you could help me out. >>Thanks, >kc 
>>> >>__________________________________________________
>> I don't have a Device section in my XF86Config file so now I'm really 
>> confused.
>
> 4.3.0:
>
>     Support (accelerated) for the 964 (revisions 0 and 1), 968, 
> Trio32, Trio64, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and 
> PLATO/PX is provided by the "s3" driver (however, only models using 
> the IBM RGB 524, Texas Instruments 3025, or an internal TrioDAC RAMDAC 
> chip are supported). Support (accelerated) for the ViRGE, ViRGE/VX, 
> ViRGE/DX, ViRGE/GX, ViRGE/GX2, ViRGE/MX, ViRGE/MX+, Trio3D and 
> Trio3D/2X is provided by the "s3virge" driver. Support (accelerated) 
> for the Savage3D, Savage3D/MV, Savage4, Savage2000, and SuperSavage, 
> is provided by the "savage" driver. Support for the other S3 chipsets 
> has not yet been ported.

Well, I was wrong. The vesa driver does work acceptably. So I guess I 
can be happy now. Thanks for finding this for me. I'm assuming it's 
from the XFree86 docs.