Re: Programmatically probe video chipset

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 11:50:00 EST

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Paul Powell wrote:
>
> Is there an API or other means to determine what video
> card, namely the chipset, that the user has installed
> on his machine?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul

The only real way is to correlate the PCI id with a chipset. This is
what XFree86 does.

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