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Top Forums Programming Extracting video card properties Post 302430708 by Corona688 on Friday 18th of June 2010 11:55:11 AM
Old 06-18-2010
Well, it's a problem. easy tools like lspci and lsusb exist because the PCI and USB buses behave and communicate in a consistent way. Video cards, on the other hand, are a dogs' breakfast of warring standards and ad-hoc solutions. Nvidia was nice enough to make a tool for their cards but there's no general-purpose solution, supporting every card means special code for everything conceivable.

So, try lspci, if you're lucky the PCI ID will be unique enough to determine much about the card. Try the nvidia tool. If these aren't specific enough, you're stuck with large general-purpose things with specific code for every possible chipset, like Xorg.

I haven't had luck finding out how, but Xorg might be able to be induced to generate a configuration file based on the video hardware it sees.
 

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ati

ATI(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    ATI(4)

NAME

       ati - ATI video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "ati"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       ati is an Xorg wrapper driver for ATI video cards.  It autodetects whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage 128, or Mach64 or earlier class
       of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64 driver as appropriate.

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       The ati driver supports Radeon, Rage 128, and Mach64 and earlier chipsets by loading those drivers.  See those manpages for specific  cards
       supported.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details, and the specific card driver for driver configuration details.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), r128(4), radeon(4)

AUTHORS

       See the individual driver pages for authors.

X Version 11						      xf86-video-ati 6.14.99							    ATI(4)
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