Description of problem: On an Acer 8950G the VGA device is not being properly listed as a known device. lspci -nn output for the device 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:68a8] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.232-1.fc15.noarch How reproducible: Always with the latest hwdata rpm. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update hwdata (0.232-1.fc15.noarch) 2. lspci -nn (on an Acer 8950G or similar notebook) Actual results: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:68a8] Expected results: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Broadway [ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6800 Series] [1002:68a8] Additional info: According to the pci.ids from http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids the latest update is dated 2011-07-14 and the latest pci.ids in hwdata-0.232-1.fc15.noarch is 2010-07-14, and can thus do with a refresh. lspci -v output for the device 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 68a8 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 050a Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53 Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at 6000 [size=256] Expansion ROM at d0040000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci Kernel modules: fglrx
This issue is now fixed in hwdata-0.234-1.fc15.noarch which I've upgraded to today.