NVIDIA - discover display

[Paul Nijjar]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Emmanuel.Leguy wrote:

> My fai client has a NVIDIA GeForce4 and the fai installation does not
> detect it. In fact, the 06hwdetect.source script uses "discover" which
> cannot detect nvidia cards. 'discover' is run like this:
>
> discover --data-path=xfree86/server/device/driver display

> What is 'xfree86/server/device/driver' path?

	discover uses a wacky path structure to allow users to specify
exactly what they want returned. For example, you can distinguish 2.4
kernel drivers from 2.6 series drivers using this path. It so happens that
the path above will find all the XFree86 modules discover knows about.

>
> Can i add nvidia to the drivers list? How?
	This is possible but it will take some work (and I have never done
it). If libdiscover2 is installed you can read the guide at
/usr/share/doc/discover/guide.html

	If you can identify the machines with Nvidia cards some other way
it may be best to define an NVIDIA class, and then manually set the
videodrv variable in NVIDIA.var .

- Paul