xboxboy Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 Hello All. Im about to dual boot my Xp machine with 2008 (install to be on second drive). I used to run mandrake 9.0 no hastles (hard drive crashed and I never reinstalled). I've tried looking everywhere to see if I can get full support for the onboard graphics (processor is the ProSavage8 3D). The Via website has its own kernels for some versions of mandrake (such as pre 2006, 2007 etc.) There is no mention of 2008. Is it likely I could have full support out of the box with 2008? South bridge chip is VIA VT8235. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 Ive been reading about the savage video driver. I think this is what i need. does anyone know if this is installed with 2008? Should I just begin install and see where it leads me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 It should work out of the box using the correct driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2007 Thanks Adam. Do you know if that has 3D support? How can I find that out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 Can anyone advise me whether the onboard video card on my mother board (MSI KM2M Combo L) is hardware or software accelerated? Im not sure where to look to find this out. I assume its the same as with modems, where a hardware modem works under linux but a software wont. Are most onboard video cards hardware or software accelerated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 A top amount of recent video cards is either built on Nvidia or Ati gfx chips, for which linux 3d acceleration is available (direct hardware support). In general, chip vendors make sure hardware acceleration can be used for a given OS. I found this link here indicating it could be done, but it's quite old and doesn't seem to be that easy: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...-savage-168951/ So, if you want a fast and easy solution and enjoy good gfx performance, you should go for a Ati or Nvidia based AGP card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Thanks Scoonma. From what I can gather, and what Adamw said, I think 2008 will install fine, from around kernel 2.6.14 or so the savage driver was added, so I shouldn't have to mess around too much. I'm hoping I can dedicate around 250mb of ram to the onboard graphics, and leave 1mb for the cpu, and hopefully this will be enough. Not sure if this will get Compiz going or not. Fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 I don't believe the Savage driver implements all the features needed for Compiz, unfortunately. AFAIK only Intel, ATI and NVIDIA hardware can run Compiz well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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