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Re: NetBSD-10.0RC



On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 11:06:20AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> REALLY???
> 
> How does NetBSD and X11 figger out what graphics card I have?

NetBSD knows as it did attach the nouveau driver at boot.

Likewise, X11 will scan the PCI bus for graphic cards.
Maybe it will also probe /dev/dri/card0 for the graphic device found
by the kernel (I don't know the details)

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