[gentoo-user] Thinkpad T20: savage graphics, framebuffer (tng) and X.

[Stroller]

Hi,

Is anyone out there using one of these laptops, or a machine using a 
similar S3 Savage graphics card. with framebuffer & a GUI, please? Most 
of my experience is with headless servers, and it leaves me a bit 
ill-equipped to deal with this, but I'd really like to sort this so I 
can access my email when I'm on holiday next month.

I got X & KDE working fine under my original kernel, and then decided 
to get the framebuffer up. Because I wanted the fancy splashscreen I 
chose frambuffer-TNG and also emerged splashutils. That works fine, but 
X no longer starts, `startx` complaining of:
   Fatal server error:
   no screens found

I'm currently using kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 and xorg-x11  6.8.2-r1, but 
I'm assuming that upgrading these won't make any difference - surely my 
configuration is out, or this device simply can't run X on the new 
framebuffer? I have tried without the savagefb kernel option, with it 
selected as a module &c.

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf still refers to the devices that were working 
perfectly before I compiled the framebuffer into the kernel, but I have 
no idea what to change these to:
   Section "Device"
         Identifier      "S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV"
         Driver          "savage"
         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
   EndSection

   # lspci -v -d 5333:8c12
   0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 
Savage/IX-MV (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
         Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T20
         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
         Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
         Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0

If anyone has a similar device I would be extremely grateful for a copy 
of their kernel .config & xorg.conf files.

Stroller.

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