xorg configures my video card as vesa and should be vga

[Dave Stroud]

I have a blade 3d pci/agp video card xorg conf. it vesa. I have the trident xorg installed and have also try nvida drivers with same results. I e4xpect to be able to use video card as its intended to be.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-virtual 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-virtual i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,gtkloader,detection,composite,opengl,decor,inotify,move,imgpng,resize,imgsvg,snap,grid,compiztoolbox,text,place,gnomecompat,put,mousepoll,wall,obs,resizeinfo,dbus,regex,vpswitch,imgjpeg,screenshot,thumbnail,unitymtgrabhandles,session,animation,workarounds,expo,ezoom,switcher,staticswitcher,fade,scale,scaleaddon]
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Tue Oct 18 16:21:20 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-21 21:07:08.838546
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: I just need an easy workaround
GraphicsCard:
 Trident Microsystems Blade 3D PCI/AGP [1023:9880] (rev 3a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Jaton Corp Device [1b13:9880]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c018 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120 for Business
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6330
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-virtual root=UUID=cac70f25-20e5-42f3-a2bd-1159471efe7c ro vga=792 splash quiet quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
UnitySupportTest:
 Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p', '-f'] failed with exit code -11: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-22 (25 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/07/2002
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: MS-6330
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvr6.00PG:bd10/07/2002:svnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-6330:pvr:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-6330:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: MS-6330
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu5
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

I can not believe I am the only one who has this problem. Trident sold a lot of these video cards.Im either need a fix for this or change to another distro that recognizes my video card.My screen flickers all the time and all words are blured and vesa does not recognize my 3d excereration. help please

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The logfile shows that it's using the trident driver. What do you mean by "vesa, should be vga"?

And there is no native 3D support for trident, so you're out of luck on any distro. Installing nvidia drivers don't help anything, just makes things worse.

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

the card that I am using is a apg/vga 3d video card. Vessa is a generic driver with limited functions.. Its like running in safe mode. You have less adjustment and lower resolution. Xorg is showing it as a vesa driver. which is ok if you dont mind fuzzy and distorted pictures. I have used ubuntu since 2004, and it has always installed as a vga driver. I am duel booting with ubuntu 11,04 and it is installed as a vga driver. The graphics are fine on it. 11.10 installs it as vesa and the graphic are screwed up. I dont care about 3d because I cant see 3d. Both are the same to me. It takes two eyes to see 3d and I only have one. I just want to be able to see the screen clearly. I tried the new suse with gnome3 and it worked right as far as graphics were cocerned. Dont like suse and want to stay with ubuntu. thanks

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

some one who knows the difference between vesa and vga needs to look at this.

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

I have installed linux mint 12. Gnome 3 still does the same thing. However in mate it installs it correctly. It looks like gnome 3 is using the wrong xorg trident driver. I would expect it to be the same in both. This is a bug in the xorg trident driver and should be reopened. Thanks

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

12.04 has the same results. I installed xubuntu 12.04 It gives me more display options and works fine. Did an upgrade to ubuntu 12.04 through synaptic. Gnome and unity stiil dont work. I can log back into xubuntu. and it woks fine. I would expect both desktops to use the same xorg trident driver, but they dont. Why.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

this driver has been removed from Ubuntu, closing its bugs