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S3 SuperSavage IX/C

2006-08-22T20:45:34Z

Hifi: /* Direct Rendering (a.k.a accelerated OpenGL) */

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=== S3 SuperSavage IX/C ===
This is a S3 video adapter<br>
S3 is now owned by Via Technologies

=== Features ===
* Chipset: S3
* PCI ID: 5333:8c2e
* AGP 4X
* 16MB SDRAM video memory
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=== Linux X.Org driver ===
This chip is supported by the '[[savage]]' driver as part of the X.Org distribution

=== Direct Rendering (a.k.a accelerated OpenGL) ===
Works without any external drivers with Xorg7. After hibernate (suspend to disk) DRI will not work correctly. glxgears runs fine but playing games will hardlock. Workaround to prevent this is rebooting X. After suspend to RAM it works somehow but rebooting X is recommended.

Note: I upgraded BIOS to latest version (1.18) but still no luck. OpenGL (DRI?) hardlocks after hibernate.

Kernel modules: drm, savage

xorg.conf: load glx and dri modules

glxgears gives around ~500 fps.

==== ThinkPad LCD ====
Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.

==== External VGA port ====
Works without trouble, even as Dualhead with xinerama. For swtching on/off use [[s3switch]] (also works for TVout).

==== SVideo port ====
works.

=== Linux kernel Framebuffer driver ===
This chip will work with either the 'vesa' or 'savagefb' driver as part of any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.

Suspend-to-RAM however does not work properly if the framebuffer is enabled. Suspending with X running is fine, so long as the framebuffer is disabled and X is using its own savage driver. With vesafb the screen is frozen on resume (but the system is still running fine behind it). With savagefb it won't even try to wake up.
[http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ vesafb-tng] allows the use of a modular framebuffer, which might fix this- if you can find a way of removing the framebuffer module once inserted.

With kernel 2.6.17.1 savagefb works fine after resuming from suspend or hibernate. You might need to change your virtual terminal once to get it back to life.

=== ThinkPads this chip may be found in ===
* {{T23}}

[[Category:Components]]

Savage

2006-06-27T09:35:30Z

Hifi: /* Project Homepage / Availability */ Updated broken link

== Xorg S3 Savage Driver ==

Your X11 driver of choice if you have a Thinkpad with a [[S3 Savage IX8|Savage IX]] or [[S3 SuperSavage IX/C|SuperSavage]] chip.<br>
It is based on [http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X], which didn't improve for a long time.

=== Features ===
*supports Xinerama and MergedFB

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
*Homepage: http://www.botchco.com/alex/new-savage/html/
*The driver is also included in Xorg [http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-savage/ cvs].

=== Packages ===
Binary snapshots (DDX, DRI, DRM) are available [http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ here].

'''Note: Binary snapshots are not up-to-date anymore because of Xorg7 modular design. You should not need them with Xorg7.'''

=== CVS ===
See this page for [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building instructions] on building from cvs.

=== Status ===
*in development, usable, secure.
*3D is supported in Xorg7 (but usable modes are limited by video RAM; with 8MB of video RAM, the DRI 3D drivers don't support 1400x1050 32-bit mode).
*with older Xorg you might want to build 3D drivers from DRI [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building CVS]

=== Interesting links related to this project ===

*[http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X]
*[http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/S3Savage DRI OpenGL driver for savage chipsets]
*[http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ Utah GLX OpenGL Driver for Savage chipsets]

[[Category:Drivers]] [[Category:T20]] [[Category:T21]] [[Category:T22]] [[Category:T23]] [[Category:A22e]]

Savage

2006-06-27T09:32:23Z

Hifi: /* Status */ Updated to Xorg7

== Xorg S3 Savage Driver ==

Your X11 driver of choice if you have a Thinkpad with a [[S3 Savage IX8|Savage IX]] or [[S3 SuperSavage IX/C|SuperSavage]] chip.<br>
It is based on [http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X], which didn't improve for a long time.

=== Features ===
*supports Xinerama and MergedFB

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
*Homepage: http://www.botchco.com/alex/new-savage/html/
*The driver is also included in Xorg [http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/CvsPage cvs].

=== Packages ===
Binary snapshots (DDX, DRI, DRM) are available [http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ here].

'''Note: Binary snapshots are not up-to-date anymore because of Xorg7 modular design. You should not need them with Xorg7.'''

=== CVS ===
See this page for [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building instructions] on building from cvs.

=== Status ===
*in development, usable, secure.
*3D is supported in Xorg7 (but usable modes are limited by video RAM; with 8MB of video RAM, the DRI 3D drivers don't support 1400x1050 32-bit mode).
*with older Xorg you might want to build 3D drivers from DRI [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building CVS]

=== Interesting links related to this project ===

*[http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X]
*[http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/S3Savage DRI OpenGL driver for savage chipsets]
*[http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ Utah GLX OpenGL Driver for Savage chipsets]

[[Category:Drivers]] [[Category:T20]] [[Category:T21]] [[Category:T22]] [[Category:T23]] [[Category:A22e]]

Savage

2006-06-27T09:28:13Z

Hifi: /* Packages */ Updated link and added note about Xorg7

== Xorg S3 Savage Driver ==

Your X11 driver of choice if you have a Thinkpad with a [[S3 Savage IX8|Savage IX]] or [[S3 SuperSavage IX/C|SuperSavage]] chip.<br>
It is based on [http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X], which didn't improve for a long time.

=== Features ===
*supports Xinerama and MergedFB

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
*Homepage: http://www.botchco.com/alex/new-savage/html/
*The driver is also included in Xorg [http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/CvsPage cvs].

=== Packages ===
Binary snapshots (DDX, DRI, DRM) are available [http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ here].

'''Note: Binary snapshots are not up-to-date anymore because of Xorg7 modular design. You should not need them with Xorg7.'''

=== CVS ===
See this page for [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building instructions] on building from cvs.

=== Status ===
*in development, usable, secure.
*3D is supported in xorg/mesa/drm [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building cvs] (but usable modes are limited by video RAM; with 8MB of video RAM, the DRI 3D drivers don't support 1400x1050 32-bit mode).

=== Interesting links related to this project ===

*[http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X]
*[http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/S3Savage DRI OpenGL driver for savage chipsets]
*[http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ Utah GLX OpenGL Driver for Savage chipsets]

[[Category:Drivers]] [[Category:T20]] [[Category:T21]] [[Category:T22]] [[Category:T23]] [[Category:A22e]]

Savage

2006-06-27T09:23:11Z

Hifi: /* Interesting links related to this project */ Removed broken link

== Xorg S3 Savage Driver ==

Your X11 driver of choice if you have a Thinkpad with a [[S3 Savage IX8|Savage IX]] or [[S3 SuperSavage IX/C|SuperSavage]] chip.<br>
It is based on [http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X], which didn't improve for a long time.

=== Features ===
*supports Xinerama and MergedFB

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
*Homepage: http://www.botchco.com/alex/new-savage/html/
*The driver is also included in Xorg [http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/CvsPage cvs].

=== Packages ===
Binary snapshots (DDX, DRI, DRM) are available [http://freedesktop.org/~fxkuehl/snapshots/ here].

=== CVS ===
See this page for [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building instructions] on building from cvs.

=== Status ===
*in development, usable, secure.
*3D is supported in xorg/mesa/drm [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building cvs] (but usable modes are limited by video RAM; with 8MB of video RAM, the DRI 3D drivers don't support 1400x1050 32-bit mode).

=== Interesting links related to this project ===

*[http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Tim Roberts savage driver for X]
*[http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/S3Savage DRI OpenGL driver for savage chipsets]
*[http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ Utah GLX OpenGL Driver for Savage chipsets]

[[Category:Drivers]] [[Category:T20]] [[Category:T21]] [[Category:T22]] [[Category:T23]] [[Category:A22e]]

S3 SuperSavage IX/C

2006-06-26T08:14:47Z

Hifi: /* Direct Rendering (a.k.a accelerated OpenGL) */

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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== S3 SuperSavage IX/C ===
This is a S3 video adapter<br>
S3 is now owned by Via Technologies

=== Features ===
* Chipset: S3
* PCI ID: 5333:8c2e
* AGP 4X
* 16MB SDRAM video memory
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== Linux X.Org driver ===
This chip is supported by the '[[savage]]' driver as part of the X.Org distribution

=== Direct Rendering (a.k.a accelerated OpenGL) ===
Works without any external drivers with Xorg7. After hibernate (suspend to disk) DRI will not work correctly. glxgears runs fine but playing games will hardlock. Workaround to prevent this is rebooting X. After suspend to RAM it works somehow but rebooting X is recommended.

Kernel modules: drm, savage

xorg.conf: load glx and dri modules

glxgears gives around ~500 fps.

==== ThinkPad LCD ====
Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.

==== External VGA port ====
Works without trouble, even as Dualhead with xinerama. For swtching on/off use [[s3switch]] (also works for TVout).

==== SVideo port ====
works.

=== Linux kernel Framebuffer driver ===
This chip will work with either the 'vesa' or 'savagefb' driver as part of any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.

Suspend-to-RAM however does not work properly if the framebuffer is enabled. Suspending with X running is fine, so long as the framebuffer is disabled and X is using its own savage driver. With vesafb the screen is frozen on resume (but the system is still running fine behind it). With savagefb it won't even try to wake up.
[http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ vesafb-tng] allows the use of a modular framebuffer, which might fix this- if you can find a way of removing the framebuffer module once inserted.

With kernel 2.6.17.1 savagefb works fine after resuming from suspend or hibernate. You might need to change your virtual terminal once to get it back to life.

=== ThinkPads this chip may be found in ===
* {{T23}}

[[Category:Components]]

S3 SuperSavage IX/C

2006-06-26T08:08:35Z

Hifi: /* Linux kernel Framebuffer driver */

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{| width="100%"
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== S3 SuperSavage IX/C ===
This is a S3 video adapter<br>
S3 is now owned by Via Technologies

=== Features ===
* Chipset: S3
* PCI ID: 5333:8c2e
* AGP 4X
* 16MB SDRAM video memory
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== Linux X.Org driver ===
This chip is supported by the '[[savage]]' driver as part of the X.Org distribution

=== Direct Rendering (a.k.a accelerated OpenGL) ===
Works without any external drivers with Xorg7.

Kernel modules: drm, savage

xorg.conf: load glx and dri modules

glxgears gives around ~500 fps.

==== ThinkPad LCD ====
Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.

==== External VGA port ====
Works without trouble, even as Dualhead with xinerama. For swtching on/off use [[s3switch]] (also works for TVout).

==== SVideo port ====
works.

=== Linux kernel Framebuffer driver ===
This chip will work with either the 'vesa' or 'savagefb' driver as part of any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.

Suspend-to-RAM however does not work properly if the framebuffer is enabled. Suspending with X running is fine, so long as the framebuffer is disabled and X is using its own savage driver. With vesafb the screen is frozen on resume (but the system is still running fine behind it). With savagefb it won't even try to wake up.
[http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ vesafb-tng] allows the use of a modular framebuffer, which might fix this- if you can find a way of removing the framebuffer module once inserted.

With kernel 2.6.17.1 savagefb works fine after resuming from suspend or hibernate. You might need to change your virtual terminal once to get it back to life.

=== ThinkPads this chip may be found in ===
* {{T23}}

[[Category:Components]]

S3 SuperSavage IX/C

2006-06-22T19:54:49Z

Hifi: DRI and OpenGL information

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{| width="100%"
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== S3 SuperSavage IX/C ===
This is a S3 video adapter<br>
S3 is now owned by Via Technologies

=== Features ===
* Chipset: S3
* PCI ID: 5333:8c2e
* AGP 4X
* 16MB SDRAM video memory
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== Linux X.Org driver ===
This chip is supported by the '[[savage]]' driver as part of the X.Org distribution

=== Direct Rendering (a.k.a accelerated OpenGL) ===
Works without any external drivers with Xorg7.

Kernel modules: drm, savage

xorg.conf: load glx and dri modules

glxgears gives around ~500 fps.

==== ThinkPad LCD ====
Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.

==== External VGA port ====
Works without trouble, even as Dualhead with xinerama. For swtching on/off use [[s3switch]] (also works for TVout).

==== SVideo port ====
works.

=== Linux kernel Framebuffer driver ===
This chip will work with either the 'vesa' or 'savagefb' driver as part of any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.

Suspend-to-RAM however does not work properly if the framebuffer is enabled. Suspending with X running is fine, so long as the framebuffer is disabled and X is using its own savage driver. With vesafb the screen is frozen on resume (but the system is still running fine behind it). With savagefb it won't even try to wake up.
[http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ vesafb-tng] allows the use of a modular framebuffer, which might fix this- if you can find a way of removing the framebuffer module once inserted.

=== ThinkPads this chip may be found in ===
* {{T23}}

[[Category:Components]]