On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:12:21 -0800 (PST), Mark Vojkovich wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>  [...]
>
>> As I recall, there is work going on to eliminate this problem by allowing 
>> our drivers to claim a whole range of PCI IDs, eliminating the need for 
>> xf86PciInfo.h.  Is that work present in 4.3.0?
>
>   xf86PciInfo.h isn't needed.  I stopped adding NVIDIA cards to it
>a while ago.  I'm not really sure why we even have an xf86PciInfo.h.
>The burden supporting a particular device ID is, and I believe always
>has been, in the driver.  Merely adding a PCI ID to xf86PciInfo.h
>doesn't add support for that PCI ID.

What you say is true, EXCEPT for "XFree86 -configure".  At least as late as 
4.2.1, the automatic configuration stuff will refuse to run if the PCI id is 
not in xf86PciIfno.h.

Does your nv hack solve that?

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- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


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