Talk:Trident

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Removal?

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so as per bug #606132 x11-drivers/xf86-video-trident has been removed in 2017. How to deal with it today? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kosgorbunov (talk • contribs)

UPD:

Besides kernel I built driver for xorg as below:

git clone https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-video-trident.git && cd xorg-xf86-video-trident && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr/ && make && make install

Check that trident_drv.la, trident_drv.so appeared in the same folder as other existing drivers (in my case it resides in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ with vesa, intel and others).

Actually /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/trident.conf no more works, so deleted that config causing that:

root #tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Available kernel symlink targets:
[ 33204.734] Parse error on line 1 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/trident.conf
  "Option" is not a valid keyword in this section.

After generating xorg.conf through "X -configure" I used to grind it with below to get working 1024x768:

FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "trident"
        BusID       "PCI:0:3:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth   16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks for the instructions! Note added to article about the driver not being available. Closing discussion Help:Talk_pages#Closing_discussions -- Ris (talk) 08:16, 8 March 2022 (UTC)