I think this needs to go to dri-devel. That's where the busy person lurks,
and it seems to be a good start.

> > Actually there has been some work to create a script which will
> > identify the card and advise which driver to download, but holiday
> > season plus busy people does not make these things happen very fast.
> 
> I think this can be very simple on linux:
> 
> `lspci -n | grep "Class 0300" | cut -d " " -f 4`
> 
> (I don't trust /proc/pci parsers, because the format can change anytime)
> 
> According to /path_to_kernel_source/drivers/pci/pci.ids, Class prefix 03
> is for display controllers, suffix 00 means VGA controllers, suffix 02
> means 3D controllers.
> 
> So we have the vendor and product IDs separated by a colon. Of course,
> we must fill a table with the ID-s (and maybe the device classes, when
> 0300 isn't good for all cards). And this is, where everyone can
> contribute.



cheers
Liam


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