Is the Trident XP2 supported?

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 22:27 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> 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

What machine/laptop is this ? and what panel size does it have ?

Alan.