Re: Trident driver for 10.x ?

[beaker%sdf.org@localhost (beaker)]

beaker%sdf.org@localhost (beaker) wrote:

> 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 .

Just a followup..

I failed to notice the xf86-video-trident package as I usually use pkgin to do
pkg searches and it doesn't appear in results.  Anyway, I was able to build
said package in a VM and manually copy over the driver to the driver directory
(/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/) and native Xorg was willing to make use of it. 
Fonts in xterm look much better but whatever fonts the dwm WM from pkgsrc uses
look awful.  Will try a custom dwm build at some point to see if that fixes
things.  I don't make much use of X11 on this system but occasionally it's
helpful.  I may just run xterm + tmux without any WM at all.

-B