DRI support for S3 Savage8 chip - will Ubuntu support it in Hoary?

[Jeramy Rutley]

I believe a lot of the 3D drivers for cards like that are supported
now in XOrg, so an upgrade to Hoary may do the trick for you.

I believe that when I had it installed (before switching to Ubuntu) my
laptop's ATI Rage Mobility's glxgears score jumped from 100 something
to over 200.  :)  Still terrible, but it was better than nothing.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:51:03 +0100, Eric Feliksik <milouny at gmx.net> wrote:
> Before running Ubuntu, I was a happy Debian user. I never got my S3
> Savage8 video chip to work with Direct Rendering so I could use hardware
> accelerated OpenGL, however.
> 
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8
> KM266/KL266]
> Is the relevant part of the output of lspci.
> 
> I did read http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html, so I tried the
> drivers at http://dri.freedesktop.org/~dri/snapshots/ . After quite a
> bit of hassling I got it to compile but loading the module in XFree86
> did not work out.
> 
> With Ubuntu it still doesn't work - at least not by default.
> 
> Question:
>         Does Ubuntu aspire to get this to work by default, for example
>         in Hoary?
> 
> If so:
>         Is there anything I can do to help?
> 
> If not:
>         Why not? Because of problems with migration to Xorg?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric
> 
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