Thank you Phil; I will do my yumming and googling in the morning. On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:59 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > William Case wrote: > Ok, with a new card that may be compatible, the driver may not > recognize > it by the numbers. > > ATI Technologies Inc Unknown > > from your lspci may be an indication of this type of problem. > > In the case where a driver will work with a device newer than the > system device catalog (the hwdata rpm) you can specify the device ID > on the modprobe command line and in the /etc/modprobe.conf. > > The descriptions of the device on each line of lspci comes from the > hardware database, /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids (from the hwdata rpm). > If the number does not match, it prints the number instead of the > description. In your case: 'ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4d52' > means that the vendor ID was found, but NOT the device ID (45d2). Try > lspci -n to see just the numbers. > > So, you have two things to try. Thanks again. This is further than I have gotten with any other help I have been given. > > Simply edit the /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids file and add a line that > will work. The confusing part here for me is the ATI description and > your description don't match. The TV-Wonder series is by Brooktree, > not ATI. This line confuses *me*. I suspected the main chip ?? had to be Brooktree (bttv) but I AM looking at a box clearly marked ATI TV Wonder 550. I bought the card directly from ATI Inc. Why is this confusing to you? > But in any case, that file will give you lots of clues to google for. > > And, a 'yum update hwdata' may be all it takes to fix it in the first > place. > > Good luck. > > > -- Regards Bill
