xf86-video-trident will not load

[roarde]

Found in Xorg.0.log posted in http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18876.0
It's a known issue with xf86-video-trident https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57996
You can check commits at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-trident/ I'm thinking 1.3.7 is the answer, but patches for 1.3.6 can be made, of course.

At this moment, the http://ftp.x.org link in our sb LINK= isn't working. Waiting to see if that's temporary before offering a replacement.

[roarde]

Update:
Updated xf86-video-trident to 1.3.7 on x11's veclinux-7.1 branch, and changed all LINK's to http://www.x.org/releases. Full build of x11 for 7.1 is running now.

[roarde]

Build succeeded, but there's no confirmation of whether the driver works. I'm guessing that it does, but requires extra configuration.

Can we get xf86-video-trident-1.3.7 in untested archived somewhere so that it can be uploaded to untested after a purge? This will prevent rebuilding all of X to get it again.

[roarde]

In the case of the user in the forum post above, the display worked only when trident drivers were removed. For 7.1, it won't load anyway as-is. No idea what this means for 7.2, which already has 1.3.7.

For now, I'm reading this as just one particular case.