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.