with request
karmvir

“prosavage IX”

I see Savage/IX or SuperSavage IX …

But then I read :

“Important Update!VIA has now replaced the Savage chips with a new and incompatible graphics engine which was initially called “CastleRock”. However, in a brilliant marketing move paralleling the “New Coke” fiasco, the marketing folks at VIA have decided to allow laptop makers to call this chip the “ProSavage-DDR400″. This is insanity on VIA’s part, and it’s going to cause me enormous grief, because of my optimistic statement that my driver supports every chip with “Savage” in the name.

So, here’s the new rule. My driver supports every chip with “Savage” in the name that has a PCI vendor ID of 5333 (which belongs to S3). If you have a Savage chip with VIA’s vendor ID (1106), then it is a CastleRock, not a Savage, and my driver does not support it.

VIA has submitted an XFree86 4.2 driver for the CastleRocks to XFree86, but I don’t think it has been integrated yet. ”

But Its probably unrelated and you surely read it.

read this ?

looked at this ?

““Linux is ready for the desktop. But it’s not ready for the laptop” — JBQ”

Then we will fight in the shade!!! Oups wrong time , wrong quote

Then we will change the rules , we will adapt the platform to our specs and we will make them ready , eventually.

One day the L in Laptop will mean Linux Or GNU/Linux for those who really care.

good day.

You are mistaken. About 6-10 months ago this laptop was 100% supported. Since then, new bugs were introduced that makes the usage of Linux on this laptop problematic. Many Linux users bought this laptop back in the day exactly because it was deemed “compatible”. XP works perfectly on it.

Not true. Your experience simply means that this laptop model is not supported by Linux.

I bet it’s not well supported by Windows Vista (if at all) and I’m sure it’s not supported by Mac OS X. Doesn’t mean these two systems are not ready for “the laptop”.

When you buy a laptop or desktop computer you’d like to run an OS different than the one it came with a few minutes of Googling is essential.

For the record, I use a laptop as my primary computer and I run GNU/Linux exclusively. Couldn’t be happier with it.

Even if everything might have worked better a year ago when this laptop was more current, right now, many things are broken. I am expecting that all the bugs will eventually be fixed, but NOT the savage driver which has 4-5 major bugs, because as I said, it’s unmaintainable. And because noone will fix that driver most likely (they would have years ago if they were going to), it’s a better bet for me to run XP on that laptop, not Linux. It’s just a sad fact.

Uhmm… but it does.

I have here a T23, I bought it really cheap around november last year, practically unused (4 (!) battery charges, still working 3 hours straight, with 512 megs of mem and a dvd drive), I was very happy that I found it. I just put a Linksys wpc11v4 pcmicia wifi card in it and that’s it.

I installed Debian testing on it the day I got it. Wifi works with ndiswrapper, but funnily not with the driver shipped on the card’s disk, but that’s ok with me.

Wifi even works every time when getting up from suspend, though it doesn’t work if you pull out the pcmcia card and then put it back in. Wierd.

Suspend worked each time I tried up to this day, that happens about 3-4 times a week, not much I know, still.

Video: the savage driver didn’t cause too much trouble for me, I use s3switch to switch easily between crt, lcd and svideo output, worked every time, and it’s been done a few times since I tend to keep presentations with it, and sometime watch videos from it output on the tv through the svideo.

I didn’t try to play hd videos on it though, yet.

So, about that “”it works for me” crap” … It’s just that crap I can give, sorry.

I am upgrading from a previous Feisty beta, not from Edgy. So don’t worry, all files will be in tact.

There is a major bug with the Savage DRI driver though, it doesn’t work at all in 3D mode and it has Xv 2D bugs too. I will file a bug report later.