[ltp] IBM Thinkpad T23 (S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR) & FS errors

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:50:50 -0600 (CST), TechWizard
<john@darktalker.net> wrote:
> I had SlackWare 10 installed, everything works great
> except i could not setup Xorg with the SuperSavage driver,
> 
> I tried SuperSavage IX/C 64 with S3
>         SuperSavage IX/C 64 with Savage
>         SuperSavage IX* with S3
>         SuperSavage IX* 64 with Savage
>         SuperSavage4 with Savage
>         SuperSavage4 with S3

it's all the same driver.  the driver will do the right thing based on
the pci id.  what version of xorg are you using and what sort of
problems are you having?

Alex

> 
> I can not find the proper setup
> I googled the driver, and I found a Savage40 driver for XFree86 4
> and the config file, but Slackware 10 is using xorg.
> 
> I decided to downgrade to SlackWare 9.1, the version with
> XFree86 4, but i've been having filesystem problems.
> 
> ReiserFS cored dumped the setup program twice during packages installing
> then i switched over ext3 advised by a friend. SlackWare Setup was able to
> finish installing after using ext3, but soon as SlackWare 9.1 tries to
> mount /dev/hda2 (Boot partition), it would  fail and have me type
> in the root password for maintance mode.
> 
> When i try to tytpe in reboot command, i gotten this error.
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) get_ext3_inode_loc: unable to read inode block
> init: /dev/initctl: no such File or directory
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