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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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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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				Brian Gerst
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