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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:02:19 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-stable@tharned.org>, freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] drm merged to -STABLE
Message-ID:  <20090319090219.GA49247@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <1237446254.6146.45.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:04:14AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 07:14 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:22:37PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:18 -0500, Greg Rivers wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm curious about why the drm driver calls this card a RV370, while pciconf
> > > > and the X server call it a RV380:
> > > >  	pciconf: "RV380 RADEON X600 Series 265MB"
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure where pciconf gets it's data.  I would actaully like to
> > > look at that.
> > 
> > According to the pciconf(8) manpage:
> > 
> >      The PCI vendor/device information database is normally read from
> >      /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors.  This path can be overridden by setting
> >      the environment variable PCICONF_VENDOR_DATABASE.
> 
> Right, that is just the vendor id though, not the device name string.

Have you actually looked at the contents of that file?
All the strings describing vendor and device name that pciconf prints can
be found in that file.


> The reason that I'm curious is that I was trying to extract device name
> info from Nvidia cards the other day, without using a static data
> source.
> 
> robert.
> 




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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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