Is the Trident XP2 supported?

Tino Keitel tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de
Wed Aug 13 13:27:18 PDT 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 21:06:14 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Eeek, actually, yes I can see it doesn't. That ID 9960 is a new one on
> me.
> 
> Hopefully it should work just like an XP, so maybe you want to try
> adding code that does that ?

There are four XP chips listed:

    { BLADEXP,          PCI_CHIP_9910,  RES_SHARED_VGA },
    { CYBERBLADEXPAI1,  PCI_CHIP_8820,  RES_SHARED_VGA },
    { CYBERBLADEXP4,    PCI_CHIP_2100,  RES_SHARED_VGA },
    { XP5,              PCI_CHIP_2200,  RES_SHARED_VGA },

I tried the BLADEXP, but I got no output on the screen. The log is
here:

http://tikei.de/Xorg.0.log3

Regards,
Tino



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