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
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
> 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
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.
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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
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