[newbie] Upgrade 9.1--9.2

[Hutton Daniel]

Title: Upgrade 9.1--9.2





There is a log of my upgrade to 9.2 at 
http://web.tiscali.it/danslinuxbox/Linux.html


Let me know if there are any other lists/people in Mandrake interested in this and I'll forward it to them. Replies to me please as I am not subscribed to the list, or at my personal e-mail found on the website.

Thanks,
Daniel Hutton

RE: [newbie] Savage drivers

[Hutton Daniel]

Title: RE: [newbie] Savage drivers






On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote:
 On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400
 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been
  relegated to Windows duty
 
 
 My 1 foray into the realm of the S3/Savage has made its appropriate
 home in my 'piece-of-shit' junkbox.
 It never even performed marginally even in windblows.
 
 
 Charles


Yeah...well...you're right. :0[ When I bought it there wasn't any
thought of using it in Linux, and no idea that it would perform
marginally in Windows. The price was right at the time. I'm pack-rat, by
genetics, so I feel obligated to still give it life. But, your right. It
should be guillotined, instead!


T



Well thanks for all your help guys. I was really pleased to get such a quick response. I went to work on the machine last night and I tried the Xtart thing and it failed, so I guess that means that the chipset is not supported. I happened to have a newish Slackware disk with me so I installed it to see how it would cope with the savage and it just defaulted to the Vesa server and that worked fine, even with KDE 3.1.0. I put the same setup on Mandrake using XFdrake and it worked fine there too, no surprise.

I don't really undrestand why Mandrake doesn't default in the same way after not finding a suitable driver. Does the vesa server mean that the card is not being used properly (or at all). I would think its fine for an easy peasy newbie friendly installation if it just defaults to vesa so at least people can have a look at the desktop and be happy that the installation has gone ok. People who want to get the maximum out of their graphics card will soon find out if it's not being used properly and can go and fix it. I still didn't open the case, the computer is not mine so I'll avoid doing that until I really have to.

Thanks once again for the help, hope I can be of help to you sometime.
Ciao,
Daniel Hutton

[newbie] Savage drivers

[Hutton Daniel]

Hello,
I'm installing 
Mandrake for an association that I'm part of and I'm having trouble getting x 
configured on a dual boot pc with a newly installed Madrake 9.1. I got all the 
graphics card info from windows which tells me thatthe graphic card 
is;
S3 Grphics ProSavage 
DDR with 32Mb memory and a "S3 P4M266" chip set.
I didn't open the 
box to check it and the documentation doesn't say what the card actually is. 
>From the position of the video port it looks like the grafics card might be 
inetgrated into the motherboard.
X just won't start. 
I've tried all the savage drivers but none of them pass the test during 
installation. I skipped the X set up during installation and then went and tried 
again with XFdrake but still no luck. I've tried both the versions of XFree86 
offered to me during installation. Using XFdrake I checked that the monitor is 
set up ok and it has used values which exactly match the values in the 
manual so I'm pretty sure the autodetect has worked well for the 
monitor.
Sorry if this is a 
tough one but I'm reallystuck. Many thanks in advance to anyone who can 
help.

Ciao,
Daniel 
Hutton

P.S I love 9.1, it's 
first time I've tried Mandrake and I've already put it on 3 
computers.