[MPlayer-users] Re: Does radeon_vid.so support Radeon 9600XT cards?

[Nyk Tarr]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 04:53:13PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Sebastian Kaps wrote:
> 
> SK>Hi Vladimir!
> SK>
> SK>SK> lspci shows "Radeon RV3*5*0 AR" as the chip's name :-?
> SK>
> SK>> 9600 _XT_ is RV360, if you have it, pci database contains an error. If
> SK>> you have 9600 Pro, error is in the Nyk's patch.
> SK>
> SK>I have a 9600XT chip (Asus Radeon 9600 XT). The WinXP driver also says
> SK>9600XT (otherwise I would be pretty p*ssed ;-). So it seems to be an
> SK>error in the pci database. Where's that information stored? Maybe I can
> SK>correct it and submit a patch (to lkml?).
> 
> It is by no means in kernel. It is stored in the file
> /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids, belonging to hwdata package on rh-like
> systems. 
> 
> Read the header of this file if you want to change something.

It's usually based on the database at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/,
however, the guys at ati seem to think the 9600XT is an RV350... I had a
look back and I got the 'RV360' from DRI CVS of XFree86 at
dri.sourceforge.net

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