How to set system to use graphics driver of first phase of 13.1 32-bit KDE installation?

[crmrhm]

@wolfi323

But what you could try is upgrade your whole X stack to the latest version in the X11:XOrg repo. That contains a newer version of the savage driver (2.3.7 vs. 2.3.6), which contains a few fixes.
Maybe that would help?

Upgrading the whole X stack did indeed help. Switching to the X11:XOrg repo changed 119 packages. I #'d all the lines in 50-device.conf file and rebooted. It did boot into graphics using the savage driver. The graphics were flaky, so I edited the 50-device.conf file to be

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Default Device"
  Driver "savage"
  Option "NoAccel" "true"
EndSection

and rebooted. Graphics are running satisfactorily now. I’ll go comment in the bug report. Thanks for all the help.
Howard

[oldcpu]

To crmrhm and wolfi323, this was an impressive educational thread to watch.

Many thanks to the two of your for your perseverance for both proposing and trying the various solution ideas.