[Newbie]S3 Savage 4 support? Or maybe not...

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Yeah, my sisters machine has that card, and runs very well...  but only in 
2D.......       Any clue about 3D?  When it will work and whatnot?


On Monday 20 May 2002 03:17 pm, Feeley wrote:
> It is supported for AFAIK 2D-acceleration but not 3D.  There are several
> different variants of the Savage4 chipset, but they should all be able to
> use the savage driver supplied in XFree86 4.2.  I'm writing this on a
> machine with what "lspci -vv | grep VGA" tells me is a Diamond Multimedia
> Systems Stealth III S540 (S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 02).  I know that it has
> 16Mb of memory, and that information enabled me to go to the Diamond
> website:
> http://www.sonicblue.com/support and find out what my chipset was exactly.
> If you card is made by some other manufacturer, then go to their website
> for further information.  There are also DOS utilities available from the
> S3 website www.s3.com which are supposed to be able to make a good guess.
> I've never used them.
>
> The source of all information is really at Tim Robert's site:
>  http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
> He's the guy that writes the drivers for XFree86.
>
> HTH,
> Oisin



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