From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Paul Powell <moloch16@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Programmatically probe video chipset
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:50:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A881438.99746625@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010212164358.2762.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com>
Paul Powell wrote:
>
> Is there an API or other means to determine what video
> card, namely the chipset, that the user has installed
> on his machine?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
The only real way is to correlate the PCI id with a chipset. This is
what XFree86 does.
--
Brian Gerst
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-12 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-12 16:43 Programmatically probe video chipset Paul Powell
2001-02-12 16:50 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2001-02-12 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-12 17:06 ` Fernando Fuganti
2001-02-12 17:11 ` Henrik Stokseth
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