On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 19:24 +0100, José Matos wrote: > so I think that the 365 here refers to the digital sound part. Nope, it's the graphics adapter. The audio device here is not actually your main sound card, but the video adapter's HDMI output; most modern video adapters are capable of HDMI output and can route sound over it (as is required by the HDMI standard). RV635 is the most correct name for the GPU in question. Graphics adapter naming is a hideously messy area which it's best not to look at too closely (it's like sausages...), but if you must: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Radeon_R600 is a good entry point. Basically, there is a unique name in the 'RV635' style for each GPU which has actual silicon differences from any other GPU; there are then consumer names, like Radeon HD 3650. There can be more than one consumer part based on the same GPU where the only difference is some kind of configuration issue, like the amount of memory or the core frequency the adapter is clocked at by default. For example, in this generation, the Radeon HD 3450 and Radeon HD 3470 are both based on the exact same GPU, the RV620 part; as you can see from http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/01/ati_radeon_hd_3450_3470_and_3670/6.jpg , the differences are in stock clock speed and the type of memory included. The consumer names sort of follow a scheme, but it's a very loose one that gets changed quite often and which is often breached anyway. The GPU part names are rather more consistent, and driver authors often prefer referring to those over the consumer card names. Ever since the first Radeon cards, the ATI/AMD GPU part naming scheme has been consistent, from R1xx (first Radeon adapters) through to R9xx (current generation), going up 100 with each generation. Although this is obviously far too sensible, so for the last few generations AMD has insisted on using a series of stupid, arbitrary and unmemorable geographical codenames, which seem to have taken precedence over 'R900' for the latest generation. NVIDIA's schemes are all over the map for both GPU part names and consumer names. It's a freaking nightmare. Just see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_300_Series ... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
