Re: ASUS L8400B laptop

[Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org>]

 > It should worry you if you want XFree86 to work. I just got burned by 

No it shouldn't.   Savage support was added to the OpenBSD version of
X11 (which is a different/enhanced version of XF86) some time last
month.   It works fine on my T20 laptop, for example.

 > eBay worked around it for me. Some research showed that it may be 
 > possible to recompile XFree86 3.3.6 to support the Savage chipsets on 
 > various BSDs, but it looked like a much bigger PITA than I felt like 
 > dealing with.

Not enough research.   Downloading a recent snapshot, or bilding from
the OpenBSD X11 sources (see release(8)) is all that is needed.

// marc