On 11/07/2011 09:23 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
# yum search trident
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
=============================== Matched: trident ===============================
xorg-x11-drv-trident.i386 : Xorg X11 trident video driver
# yum info xorg-x11-drv-trident
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
Installed Packages
Name : xorg-x11-drv-trident
Arch : i386
Version : 1.2.1
Release : 3.fc6
Size : 163 k
Repo : installed
Summary : Xorg X11 trident video driver
URL : http://www.x.org
License : MIT/X11
Description: X.Org X11 trident video driver.
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 5.5 (Boron)
(thinking to myself: curious, I thought I had an ATI card in this machine?)
# lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon
7000/VE]
(yep!)
It looks to me like it's installed automatically in SL5, unless they've taken it
out on versions> SL5.5 (I don't have a trident video card in this particular
machine) Perhaps I've misunderstood the question?
-Chris
On 2011-11-04, at 1:55 PM, YASHA KARANT wrote:
Does anyone have a xorg driver for EL 5.7 for /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers for
a Trident Cyberblade XP 2? The specific
information came from the Device Manager GUI.
The xorg.conf stanza I need to support is:
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values:<i>: integer,<f>: float,<bool>: "True"/"False",
###<string>: "String",<freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Videocard1"
VideoRam 32768
Driver "trident"
VendorName "Villagetronic"
BoardName "VTBook"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Option "Int10" "off"
Option "SetMClk" "133.039MHz"
Option "Display" "DVI"
EndSection
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
Although I specified Trident, the actual driver loaded is vesa . I do
not have the system in front of me and it is not accessible over the
Internet (DCHP ISP client for end-user applications), and thus display
the exact stanzas I used in xorg.conf . When I attempted to force a
load of the trident driver -- that is present in the modules of xorg on
the system -- X hung with a black screen. Thus, I conclude that the
distro supplied trident driver does not function with the precise
Trident chipset on the PCMCIA card (Trident Cyberblade XP 2).
There was a driver supplied by the PCMCIA card vendor -- evidently using
source supplied/modified by Trident Corp. -- but Trident seems to be out
of the video chip set business and the PCMCIA card vendor has not
responded to my requests for source -- source would at least provide the
opportunity for building the correct driver without reverse engineering
(disassembling) the vendor-supplied binary driver module.
Yasha Karant
