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[Bug 385703] Re: nv, autodetection fails because of missing PCI-IDs, in nv.ids, for a large number of supported cards in Jaunty

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From: Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:15:23 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 385703 <385703@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Wildcards/bitmasks aren't necessarily a solution.  There is hardware
that is made by NVIDIA that doesn't work with NV, so if you just match
on NVIDIA as a vendor, you are shooting yourself in the foot.

The best solution is:
 * Submit your IDs upstream, and then we can pull a patch..

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nv, autodetection fails because of missing PCI-IDs, in nv.ids, for a large number of supported cards in Jaunty
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[Bug 385703] [NEW] nv, autodetection fails because of missing PCI-IDs, in nv.ids, for a large number of supported cards in Jaunty
From: Bojan Vitnik, 2009-06-10