Bug 7766 – Updated Trident drivers for Xfree 4.2.1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Anders Rune Jensen (RETIRED) 2002-09-10 15:31:20 UTC]

Hi

In my laptop a Toshiba Tecra 8200 there's a Trident Cyberblade XP video card. In
Xfree 4.2.1 there was added xv (as in xvinfo) support, but there's a newer
driver out for Trident cards which accelerates 2d. I've been using this driver
since Xfree 4.2.0 and it's been very stable! Please consider adding this driver
for Xfree since it makes it much easier to configure XFree and it's much faster
(i can now play quake 2 :))

There driver can be obtained from:

http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/

I'm not sure, but it must be latest cvs or something.

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-11 15:34:11 UTC]

Hmm .. any idea if we can contact him to obtain the source ?

[Comment 2 Anders Rune Jensen (RETIRED) 2002-09-12 02:39:56 UTC]

the source is in cvs. He just build a binaries so that people don't have to
compile Xfree again for this updated driver.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-29 13:08:49 UTC]

I added the latest trident patch from Redhat rpm's.

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-12 15:02:48 UTC]

If more issues, reopen.