The Savage frame buffer driver is highly experimental. Use at your own risk. There are two alternative patches: savagefb-0.3.2-linux-2.4.19-pre7.patch adds basic frame buffer support for S3 Savage cards savagefb-0.4.0-linux-2.4.19.patch contains the features of the 0.3.2 version plus support for accelerated fills and blits. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for all cards. Use 'fbset -accel false' to turn off acceleration.