S3 SuperSavage IX/C

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S3 SuperSavage IX/C

This is a S3 video adapter
S3 is now owned by Via Technologies

Features

  • Chipset: S3
  • PCI ID: 5333:8c2e
  • AGP 4X
  • 16MB SDRAM video memory

Linux X.Org driver

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

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. 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