On Sunday 28 December 2008 07:43:57 am Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
Native dxdiag is checking the name of the display driver which in our
case
winex11.drv and I guess this is just the identifier of Winex11.drv.
Inside
winex11.drv we don't really have the knowledge about the 3d hardware we
are
emulating. In the end we might need to duplicate some card detection
code
inside winex11.drv and show a real driver name like the Nvidia or ATI
ones.
It would be a lot of work and only be worth if apps really need it.
Are there any X functions that winex11.drv can use to get the strings used for a particular screen? Eg. in xorg.conf, I have:
Section "Device" ... Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NV80 [GeForce 8600 GT]" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" ... EndSection
I can't imagine that being inaccessible by X apps.. and I believe I've seen some apps report this info. It's something gdi32/user32 can then get for a particular screen/adapter by calling into winex11.drv (if not also something wined3d can use), instead of reporting "X Windows" for the card name.
Those strings were just generated by the tool which created your xorg.conf. These fields are only internal to X. Some of the info can be obtained from X. For instance I requested support for pci id reading in the nvidia drivers and that was added recently. I plan to work on that early next year.
Roderick