On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Gene C. wrote: >> >2. Any tips or things I should try to get it to work "better" >> >... it works OK not for the limited use I need. >> >> This specific chip ID is probably missing from pcitable and the >> Cards database. Once in a while when adding new chip support, an >> ID gets left out here or there creating an inconsistency. It's a >> pretty simple fix though once someone reports the problem. Any >> time something like this occurs, just file a bug report in >> bugzilla, and when I'm updating PCI ID lists, I'll try to >> incorporate the missing data for future updates, etc. > >I also recently got a built by ATI 9200 and it worked fine with >both the installer and redhat-config-xfree86. With the thousand >and one slightly different adapters that ATI puts out I am not >sure how anyone keeps up with all of the various chipids. It kindof makes sense to me that the most successful video hardware manufacturers (ATI and Nvidia) are more likely than not, going to have the largest selection of products to choose from compared to smaller vendors or vendors who do not cover the same range of markets. Different products are created to target different market segments. Different hardware has different PCI IDs, since you need a way of distinguishing the hardware inside a driver. Every vendor that has different hardware, almost always does this, because not doing so makes it insane to detect the hardware properly *cough* Matrox G400/G450 *cough*. So I'm not sure what your point is. Who cares how many PCI IDs there are? I suppose if ATI and Nvidia didn't want to both be #1, they could produce less products, sell less products, and have a smaller need for PCI IDs, and thus make it easier to update PCI ID lists. I don't know about you, but personally I favour innovation, and selection, and hope to see both ATI and Nvidia, as well as other vendors produce as many products as they need to in order to compete in the various markets and market niches that are out there, and to include or exclude whatever features they deem necessary in a given product designed for a given niche. I also hope that they make the products easy to autodetect and to distinguish which features are available, so that we can detect them. The easiest way to do that is with PCI device ID. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
