[elrepo] nvidia-detect feature enhancement

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 16 februarie 2015 20:38:40 EET, Bonnie King <bonniek at fnal.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Updated packages (nvidia-detect-346.35-2) are currently syncing to
>the
>> mirrors and should be available shortly from the elrepo testing
>repository:
>>
>> yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update nvidia-detect
>>
>> I'd appreciate if folks could test and confirm they work as expected.
>On
>> my el5 desktop system:
>
>With multi-GPU cards, two lines are printed:
>
>[root at host ~]# nvidia-detect
>kmod-nvidia-304xx
>kmod-nvidia-304xx
>
>[root at hody ~]# lspci |grep -v vga
>04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [Quadro NVS 
>440] (rev a2)
>05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [Quadro NVS 
>440] (rev a2)
>
>I was of two minds on this, and printing both is probably the correct 
>thing to do, but this explains why in my original 
If the GPUs are identical, I'd print only one line

>patch terse_output() 
>prints according nv_lookup_device_id()'s return code.
>
>Of course this breaks if you had two different GPU versions in the 
>system (I don't have any examples of that, and you wouldn't be able to
>probe both module versions at once, right?)...
Excellent question !
I might be able to test that config... assuming the old old old very old nvidia cards are supported. I have to check the cartons with old hardware and see if any of those deprecated video cards fit into one of the new computers.... most of which have integrated ATI video



>
>My reasoning was that one-line output is nicer, and that the output 
>you'll get is as reliable as the program's exit code.
>
>Thoughts?
Would it help if I tried the above mentioned dual card setup (assuming that I do have compatible hardware, which I am not sure that is true ) ?