Harware Acceration cannot be activated on Trident Cyberblade XP / No enhanced visual effects

[Gysirith]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-trident

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Toshiba Portege 4010 Laptop (graphic card : Trident Cyberblade XPAi1.
I cannot activate the visual effects. It seems that hardware acceleration is not activated even if the graphic card can do it.
I tried to add an option noaccel "off" in xorg.cong. It didn't work.
glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" returns : direct rendering: No

I hope it will be helpful

[drakesoft (powerschorsch21)]

I think the trident driver only supports 2D acceleration.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi gysirith,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

[Gysirith (gysirith)]

Hi Bryce,

Just to keep you uptaded. It still remain an issue. I tried the last ubuntu release (updated thru the ubuntu update tool). I'll try to post the requested files as soon as possible (my laptop is momentarily out of service due to an hardware failure).

[jscanlan79 (jscanlan79)]

I'm running into the same issue with my mother-in-law's laptop - an hp pavilion xh675. Graphics Card is: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP (rev 63). I can't enable the visual effects. I had 8.10 and now have 9.04 with the same issue.

Here's my output on the command you asked the gysirith to get for you:

jojo@jojo-laptop:~$ lspci -vvnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ALi Corporation M1647 Northbridge [MAGiK 1 / MobileMAGiK 1] [10b9:1647] (rev 04)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-ali
 Kernel modules: ali-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller [10b9:5247]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 Memory behind bridge: e8100000-edffffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 40000000-400fffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR+
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03) (prog-if 10)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 16 (20000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
 Region 0: Memory at fff70000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac51]
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:0018]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 128 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at 40120000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
 Memory window 0: 30000000-33fff000 (prefetchable)
 Memory window 1: 34000000-37fff000
 I/O window 0: 00001400-000014ff
 I/O window 1: 00001800-000018ff
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
 Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
 Kernel modules: yenta_socket

00:04.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac51]
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:0018]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Stat...

[Michael R. (michael-insulin-pumpers)]

Confirmed that this problem still exists 10.04

Trident Cyberblade/XP onboard VGA
HP d330
Prodect #DC579AV

Lots of these are becoming available used as companies retire computers and buy the next round for Win7 upgrades

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-trident (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]