Is the Trident XP2 supported?

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 21:53 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:32:14 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:26 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to know if the Trident XP2 PCI chip is supported. The manpage
> > > doesn't mention it, but I found contradicting statements in goole.
> > > However, I'm still not sure if it is really supported by the trident
> > > driver.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, it should work.
> 
> It doesn't, at least not out of the box. Its PCI ID is not contained in
> TRIDENTPciChipsets. In lspci, it looks like this:
> 
> 06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP2
> (rev 89)
> 
> There is a trident_drv.so supplied by the vendor, but that requires an
> older Xorg.
> 
> What can I try to get this card to work?

What version of X are you using and what does the logfile say ?

Alan.