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Trying to get X working in Basic Linux using the default graphics on
an old IBM Thinkpad T20 laptop.
Any good pointers for this in adiition-to the below ?
Has a built-in S3 Savage/IX video chipset.
Windows 98 FE recognizes this as an S3 Graphics Savage/IX SSVID=1014;
HW ver 017.
Win98-specific drivers for this are S3_7.DRV and S3VDD7.VXD; able to
get excellent 16bit/32bit colors at 1024x768 resolution.
So far, have used Basic Linux 3.50 with both Slack4.0's svga and s3
xservers alternatively loaded. Result: xf86config continues to create
broken/"fatal" XF86Config files regardless of which xserver is used.
Latest 'startx' error gives "S3: Unknown S3 chipset: chip_id = 0x8c12
rev 11"

Some links on this effort:
- Basic Linux's 'How to  Replace  Xvesa'
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/xvesa.html
- 'X11 SVGA SERVER CONFIGURATION FILES' at
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/XF86Config.laptops and at
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/blfiles.ht
-  System and video card info at http://www.grennan.com/t20/index.html
 and  at 
http://forums.ngemu.com/problems-games/79920-final-fantasy-ix-low-spec-pc.html
- XF86Config guidance page at http://www.xfree86.org/current/XF86Config.5.html
-Xfree86 4.x-specific guidance at
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html  and at
http://open.bsdcow.org/histerical/config/machines/ibm-thinkpad-t21#XF86Config

Any more good links or direction for setting this S3 graphics video
card up in BL3-50 ??
Open to using another xserver here.
Also, upon request, can gladly provide current XF86Config and other
related pkgs/mods loaded..
Thanks in advance for some good pointers.