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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: videocard; scanpci/SuperProbe commands?
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, mpd wrote:
> blah, top-posting.

Huh?

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:42:01PM -0700, Patrick Soltani wrote:
> > > I found that I have the scanpci command (although for many of my cards it falsely reports "Device unknown," for example, for my SoundBlaster Live card).
> > > What can anyone tell me about the "SuperProbe" command?  It is not in the ports, nor can I "pkg_add -r" the binary.  Is there a binary out there that probes the clockchip, RAMDAC etc settings of ones videocard?  Preeshyaytit.
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/SuperProbe ... Regards, Patrick Soltani.
> It was removed in XFree 4.2.0. - XFree86 -probeonly replaces the functionality, I believe. -mike

Ack!  This overwrites the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file, instead of solely
going to stdout.  Beware...  :(

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