On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 07:14 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:22:37PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:18 -0500, Greg Rivers wrote:
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> > > 
> > > I'm curious about why the drm driver calls this card a RV370, while 
> > > pciconf
> > > and the X server call it a RV380:
> > >   pciconf: "RV380 RADEON X600 Series 265MB"
> > 
> > I'm not sure where pciconf gets it's data.  I would actaully like to
> > look at that.
> 
> According to the pciconf(8) manpage:
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>      The PCI vendor/device information database is normally read from
>      /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors.  This path can be overridden by setting
>      the environment variable PCICONF_VENDOR_DATABASE.

Right, that is just the vendor id though, not the device name string.
The reason that I'm curious is that I was trying to extract device name
info from Nvidia cards the other day, without using a static data
source.

robert.

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Robert Noland <[email protected]>
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