Is there some way I could add the trident(4) display driver to the current
version of Xorg in 10.1/i386 ? Seems Xorg got re-worked post 9.x and this
trident(4) display driver got dropped. I did try copying the driver over
from 9.4 but Xorg reports a version miss-match and aborts startup.
When I run Xorg -configure is does output a xorg.conf.new file (with some
errors) which lists Driver="modesetting" but I don't think that'll work on
this ancient hardware*. Xorg will start with "vesa" as driver but it is
quite awful looking (garbled graphics, off colors).
If I build the modular-xorg-server will I get the trident driver? I could
not tell looking through the anoncvs web thing. The trident driver does
appear to be in the current set of drivers at freedesktop.org .
-B
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* partical dmesg output
NetBSD 10.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Dec 20 18:31:34 UTC 2024
mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 503 MB
avail memory = 470 MB
..
cpu0 at mainbus0
cpu0: Use cpuid to serialize rdtsc
cpu0: VIA Samuel 2, id 0x673
cpu0: node 0, package 0, core 0, smt 0
..
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: VIA Technologies product 0601 (rev. 0x05)
agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: VIA Technologies product 8601 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: Trident Microsystems product 8500 (rev. 0x6a)
wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
drm at vga0 not configured
...
