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Bug 64506 - RFE New Trident driver
RFE New Trident driver
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86 (Show other bugs)
7.3
i386 Linux
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Assigned To: Mike A. Harris
David Lawrence
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Reported: 2002-05-06 18:30 EDT by David L. Gehrt
Modified: 2007-04-18 12:42 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-05-31 03:31:33 EDT
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Description David L. Gehrt 2002-05-06 18:30:48 EDT 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-3 i686)

Description of problem:
There is a new Trident driver that provides accelerated X on, among other things
Trident Cyberblade graphics chips.  The driver distributed with the 4.2 for
these chips is (painfully) unaccelerated.
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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fire up an X session on a system with a Cyberblade graphics chip using the
distributed driver.
2. Observe slow performance od the display interface.
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Additional info:

I downloaded the new driver from http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh and it does
provide significantly  inmproved perforemance.  I think the preoblem was too
late for inclusion in the X Windows System 4.2 Release.
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-07 04:27:09 EDT 
That is correct, the Trident driver improvements were done post-4.2 by
Alan Hourihane (who works at Red Hat now).  I've included bug-fix only
patches to the 4.2.0 driver since there was not adequate time to both
integrate and properly test the CVS driver with 4.2.0.

I may consider including an updated driver perhaps in a future erratum,
but no guarantees.  Depends on how much time I have to work on non-essential
enhancements.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-31 02:16:03 EDT 
Alan, I'm going to add your new Trident driver to 4.2.0 now, however your
web page only has a binary-only driver present.  I'm not familiar with
the CVS state of the Trident driver or its stability however.

Is the current XFree86 CVS head trident driver stable and ok for me to
plop into 4.2.0?  If not, could you possibly tarball me up a copy of your
latest stable sources?

Thanks.
Comment 3 Alan Hourihane 2002-05-31 03:31:27 EDT 
Mike,

There's one more problem I'm working on, then I'll send you some
diffs.
Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2002-08-07 04:12:15 EDT 
New trident driver has been in rawhide for a while now.
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