Re: Xconfigurator package in debian ?
> It does detect my AGP Card, but thats no surprise its a PCI Device. It
> doesnt output anything about memory size, resolution, ramdac oder clocks.
This is a "feature" :-)
You see, to find out a lot of that info, you need to do what i call
"invasive" probes. You need to write to IO registers and read values. This
means that you can potentially hang a machine.
xviddetect doesn't do any of that stuff. It should never cause your machine
to hang (*), because it only uses "non-invasive" probing.
if someone can tell me how i can find out more info about video cards
without resorting to low level io read/writes, i'd love to know.
randolph
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(*) famous last words? :P
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