Re: on a ProSavage8 card

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Excuse my english

El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 07:14, Pablo Rodriguez escribió:
> Hi there,
> 
> I bought an Acer Aspire 1353LM a month ago and I have installed MDK 9.1.
> The graphic card is a S3ProSavage8 8×AGP. MDK uses the vesa driver for
> it, that works fine, excepting some flickering when watching dvds with
> mplayer (or any dvd player).
> 
> I wanted to install the proper driver (the one from Tim Roberts), but it
> didn't work. Tim told me that the chipset is actually a CastleRock one
> and that the 4.4 version of the XFree86 will support it. Is there no way
> to have a driver for the 4.3 version? (I have been using Linux for less
> than a month and upgrading XFree86 won't be an easy task.)

There is a driver provided by VIA for that card but just for Xfree4.2,
now Xfree people is working on it to updated to Xfree 4.4, but the work
is not ready there is no cvs driver yet.




> 
> Many thanks for your excellent work,
> 
> 
> Pablo
> 
> 
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