bea...@sdf.org (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
