s3 savage 2003

**pat1** · 06-15-2003, 09:05 AM

can anyone tell me if they have successfully loaded knoppix and got X to work with a s3 savage 2000? I have tried everything to no avail

**rickenbacherus** · 06-15-2003, 02:25 PM

Not sure if this is of any help or not but I have had great results w/ Linux on an old Savage S3 w/ 4M. Knoppix automatically used the savage server. I presume you have already tried the cheat codes:

xmodule=s3
xmodule=savage

Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

**pat1** · 06-16-2003, 04:00 AM

i have tried both and neither worked...it tells me no suitable server is found for my card

**rickenbacherus** · 06-16-2003, 05:26 AM

Unfortunately my only suggestion is to boot with:

boot: vga=normal

Which of course is not what you really want to do. Does that card work with any other distros? Maybe a search on G4L will turn up something. gluck

**rickenbacherus** · 06-17-2003, 05:52 PM

I think you can get the latest s3 savage driver here. You have to download the tarball and compile the entire driver set and then copy the savage driver over. Can't say for sure it will work tho.