2011-09-13 Update: I can confirm that video on the Tritton XD300 (0711:500 - Trigger 1+) functional w/ the drivers and configuration on MaX 6.5RC2 w/ max-multiseat package installed. To make it work I had to use a USB to PS2 splitter in the USB port next to the sound input and output.
I bought an XD300 and I'd like to get it working with something other then Windows. The key element that doesn't work out-of-the-box with Ubuntu is the USB2VGA video adapter.
The Hardware - MCT 0711:5100 Trigger 1+ chipset
That device is (see lsusb output):
This chipset is also known as the MCT Trigger 1+ID 0711:5100 Magic Control Technology Corp.
The device is also used by a few other OEMs in a few other devices...
- From MadCatz/Tritton as the XD300
- Directly from MCT in the UVAL-D8205 (generic XD300) and MWS300 (same as the UVAL-D8205 without the ethernet) and USB VGA Adapter UVGA-A8201
- Startech USB2VGAE2
- USB 2.0 to WSXGA+ Adapter # UTV-100A1
- Others ???
My goal with this thread is to hopefully weave together all of the other threads here and on launchpad with other folks who have done work on this in an effort to "concentrate our fire" and get a workable solution.
Timeline
It looks like there was a driver that was started by MCT based off of the sisusbvga kernel (probably for another OEMs project) and that was provided to "Samir Saidani" (saidani at tuxfamily org), that effort got the device to detect, but it was not usable (his wiki w/ instructions and driver tarballs).
Emergence of support for MWS300 in a Debian-based distro
Skip ahead some time and a number of commits by Mario Izquierdo (mariodebian at gmail com) 1 2 3 appear on a educational Linux distro called MAX/EducaMadrid based out of Madrid, Spain which seems to suggest support for MWS300 multipoint workstations as well as DisplayLink based devices for classrooms (aka USBSeats).
Mario also posted a blog posting about another device powered by MCT Trigger 1+ here
Here's a video showing off Trigger 1+ based MWS300 clients being used to power a classroom, 6-usb video cards per desktop server.
Stuff to hack on
There are some i386/AMD64 packages for XOrg.conf at these links, and there maybe kernel drivers for trigger usb, etc in the kernel of the distro itself which is downloadable from http://www.educa2.madrid.org/web/max/descarga
- http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/max...rg-video-tusb/
- http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/max...rg-video-tusb/ <-- newest X11 driver for TUSB (built on libusb)
- http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/max...max-multiseat/<-- some multi-seat config including udev rules needed to load drivers I think
- http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/svn...usb-clone.conf
Anyone game to have another go at getting this working?
Other background reading
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