Driver for old GPU

Post#16 by **Blaze** » 26 Jul 2018, 14:42

With Openbox DE the same story?

Post#17 by **rchase** » 26 Jul 2018, 15:42

I can substitute Openbox for XFCE, but that's not going to have any effect on the operation of xorg. There is no problem with the desktop environment, just the video driver.

Post#18 by **rchase** » 27 Jul 2018, 22:13

I booted with openbox substituted for xfce; no substantive difference, although a couple of icons in the notification area displayed. I installed Porteus to hd in VESA mode, made a script to save dmesg; Xorg.0.log; and the result of lspci -v on flash drive, and used the Porteus Settings Center to make it autorun at startup -- X Server still fails with "[drm] failed to load kernel module "savage"".

Post#19 by **Blaze** » 28 Jul 2018, 06:44

How about to try these list of packages?

Post#20 by **rchase** » 28 Jul 2018, 13:39

One by one? Thanks for assembling the list. I am unclear as to the nature of the differences among different distributions and the single post I cited above is the only reference I can recall seeing to anyone getting any Linux with a GUI to work with the S3 ProSavage DDR, so old Ubuntu drivers seem the likely choice -- though the machine has never successfully run Ubuntu variants I tried.

Post#21 by **Blaze** » 29 Jul 2018, 09:47

rchase wrote: ↑
28 Jul 2018, 13:39
One by one?

Yes

Post#22 by **rchase** » 01 Aug 2018, 22:44

I couldn't download a couple of those; of the rest, most reverted to VESA graphics because of version mismatch between the modules and X Server, one reverted to VESA graphics because it couldn't load a driver.so file, and the rest failed with the characteristic lagging and failure to draw GUI elements. I removed xf86-video-savage from xorg and recompiled it, then added each module in turn to /base and tried to boot in Always Fresh.