On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Chris Edgington wrote: >Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:28:12 -0500 >From: Chris Edgington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" >Subject: RH9 Display Settings Card List > >Does anyone know where the RH9 display settings applet gets its list of >video cards when you click the Configure button on the advanced tab? I'm >adding support for the new SiliconMotion Cougar3DR (730 chipset) to the >siliconmotion driver. The server is working, but I'd like to get it to show >up properly in the RH list. I grepped through the xfree86 source tree for >"Lynx (generic)" (an entry that shows up in the list) and I could not find a >file containing that, so I figured maybe I searching for the wrong thing or >its not part of xfree86. Does the list come from a file / query in xfree86, >or is it something RH9 specific?
The list of video cards is in the "Cards" file. However, the one that comes with XFree86 is massively outdated, and I believe unmaintained, so we maintain our own Cards database separately, which is part of our "hwdata" rpm package. That said, our database is MIT licensed as the original was, and anyone is free to use the contents of it in any way that is useful, including merging it into XFree86 CVS if desired. Ditto for the MonitorsDB database. I plan on replacing the Cards database in Red Hat Linux with a new mechanism sometime in the future which will be much more flexible, allow per architecture overrides, allow the config tool to know what hardware supports DRI and on what specific architectures, and other useful things that are desperately needed. This would also allow drop in drivers to also drop in new database files which could supplement the database that comes with the OS, or override specific entries, or allow multiple drivers to be alternatives for a particular card. HTH -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
