Trident CyberBladeXP4 status?

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:47:42AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I recently recommended a Toshiba R100 laptop to a faculty member
> because it looked like all of the hardware was supported.  I guess I
> made the bogus assumption that with everything else being Intel, the
> graphics would be as well.  Instead I get a CyberBladeXP4m32.
> 
> Poking around in trident_driver.c, I see:
> 
>         case CYBERBLADEXP4:
>             pTrident->ddc1Read = Tridentddc1Read;
>             ramtype = "SGRAM";
>             pTrident->HasSGRAM = TRUE;
>             pTrident->IsCyber = TRUE;
>             pTrident->shadowNew = TRUE;
>             pTrident->NoAccel = TRUE; /* for now */
>             Support24bpp = TRUE;
>             chipset = "CyberBladeXP4";
>             pTrident->NewClockCode = TRUE;
>             pTrident->frequency = NTSC;
>             break;
> 
> So there's no acceleration and it really shows.  The "for now" comment
> gives some hope that perhaps someone has something in the works.  Any
> chance of that?  I'm happy to test or hack about to the best of my
> quite limited ability.

Unfortunately, time slipped by and nothing got done with this.

You are currently stuck without any acceleration.

Alan.