Multimedia controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4d52 ??
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Jan 2 07:42:54 UTC 2007
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.
>
>
>
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Regards Bill
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