KM-266 Video and Linux

[Zepper]

Does anyone know of a distro that will work with the KM-266 integrated video (Savage DDR) properly, right out of the box? I've borrowed a copy of SuSE 8.2 to try and have been diddling with settings in YAST for severeal days without ever getting a successful X session.
. SuSE's hardware compat pages seem to indicate that 8.2 "should" work with this video but...
. Will appreciate any info.
.bh.
:sun: !

 

[Zepper]

Anybody?!?

 

[darktubbly]

Tried the Linux drivers from VIA? Check this page and scroll down to the section which says Suse 8.0. The corresponding file should tell you how to set it up.

 

[Zepper]

Thanks. I did go to viaarena before and printed out the instructions. But the only drivers that are available seem to apply to XF86 v.4.2.
. This SuSE 8.2 has XF86 v.4.3. I figure that if the probo site was being maintained at all, it would be talikng about the latest ver. as well.
. There was also a a brief comment that S3 was taking over the maintenance of the savage_drv.o driver and I couldn't find anything at all on the S3 site.
.bh.
Where's the :sun: ?

 

[darktubbly]

Have you tried the driver regardless? The author has the source code posted up there. Also, try adding the following line to your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4, if you have it) Device section:

Option "UseBIOS" "no"

This fellow has a sample XF86Config up on his site and he's using the Probo driver (albeit, on XFree 4.2)