Savage

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Xorg S3 Savage Driver

Your X11 driver of choice if you have a Thinkpad with a Savage MX, IX or a SuperSavage chip. It is based on Tim Roberts savage driver for X, which didn't improve for a long time.

Features

  • supports Xinerama and MergedFB

Project Homepage / Availability

Packages

Binary snapshots (DDX, DRI, DRM) are available here.

CVS

See this page for instructions on building from cvs.

Status

  • in development, usable, secure.
  • 3D is supported in xorg/mesa/drm 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).

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