Re: Programmatically probe video chipset

2001-02-12 Thread Fernando Fuganti
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, 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? try kudzu (a hardware detection lib from RedHat) or libdetect (another one but from Mandrake) they all provide a reasonable

Re: Programmatically probe video chipset

2001-02-12 Thread Henrik Stokseth
Paul Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an API or other means to determine what video > card, namely the chipset, that the user has installed > on his machine? for PCI and AGP cards you can scan through the bus and fetch all vendor:device numbers of type 7 (vga compatible) IIRC and the

Re: Programmatically probe video chipset

2001-02-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Is there an API or other means to determine what video > card, namely the chipset, that the user has installed > on his machine? On a modern X86 machine use the PCI/AGP bus data. On a PS/2 use the MCA bus data. On nubus use the nubus probe data. On old style ISA bus PCs done a large pointy hat

Re: Programmatically probe video chipset

2001-02-12 Thread Brian Gerst
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. --

Programmatically probe video chipset

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Powell
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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.