The Trident driver has undergone major work between XFree86 1.2 and XFree86 1.3. Because of this work, all of the Trident SVGA chipsets, except the very first one, are supported by both the color and monochrome servers. Additionally support has been added for the latter four chipset with the release of XFree86 2.1:
8800CS 8900B 8900C 8900CL/D 9000 9000i 9100B 9200CX 9320 9400CX 9420It must be noted that the 9000i chipset is treated as a 9000 by the server. Additionally the 9100B, 9200CX, 9320, 9400CX, and 9420 chipsets are treated as a Trident 8900CL. Therefore it is equivalent to putting `
Chipset "tvga8900cl"' or
`Chipset "tvga9000"' in the XF86Config file. Also,
note that the 9000i, 9100B, and 9320 have not been tested with the server,
but should work in this way according to the chipset documentation.
NOTE: No acceleration features of the newer chipsets have been taken advantage of.
The original Trident chipset, 8800BR, cannot be supported as an SVGA chipset by either the color or monochrome servers. The chip is supported, however, by the ``generic'' driver for the monochrome server.
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