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NAME
getconfig - get configuration information for the XFree86
server
SYNOPSIS
getconfig [option ...]
DESCRIPTION
getconfig is a programmatic interface that is used by the
XFree86 server to get configuration information about video
hardware when operating without an XF86Config file.
This implementation of getconfig is written in perl. It
processes a prioritized and ordered list of rules supplied
internally and from meta-configuration files. The rules are
in the form of perl expressions. getconfig writes to stan-
dard output the XF86Config-style configuration data speci-
fied by the last highest priority rule that evaluates to
true. Information about the format of the meta-configuration
files can be found in the getconfig(5) manual page.
OPTIONS
-I search-path
Specify the search path to use for meta-config
files. search-path is a comma-separated list of
directories to search. Each directory in the search
path is searched for files with a .cfg suffix. Each
such file is opened and checked for a valid signa-
ture string. Rules are read from files with a valid
signature string and appended to the list of rules
to evaluate. If no search path is specified, only
the internally supplied configuration rules will be
used.
-D Enable debugging output.
-V Print out the version information and exit.
-X XFree86-version
Specify the XFree86 version in numeric (integer)
form.
-b subsys-id
Specify the PCI subsystem ID of the video device.
-c class
Specify the PCI class of the video device.
-d device-id
Specify the PCI device ID of the video device.
-r revision
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Specify the PCI revision of the video device.
-s subsysvendor-id
Specify the PCI subsystem vendor ID of the video
device.
-v vendor-id
Specify the PCI vendor ID of the video device.
-S sbus-path
Specify the SBUS path of the video device.
FILES
.cfg files located in the search path. The search path typ-
ically specified by the XFree86 server is:
/etc/X11
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11
<modulepath>
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig
where <modulepath> is the XFree86 server's module search
path.
SEE ALSO
getconfig(5), XFree86(1), XF86Config(5).
AUTHORS
The XFree86 automatic configuration support and the getcon-
fig interface was written by David H. Dawes, with the sup-
port of X-Oz Technologies.
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