Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

System info tab for graphic info should use glxinfo -l 's result first

Bug #1040456 reported by Tim Chen on 2012-08-23

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center	Expired	Low	gnome-bugs #688220
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Open the system setting->Details->Graphics, find the Graphics Driver show VESA: XXXXXX strings , not the accurate information from glxinfo -l | grep "OpenGL renderer string"

The "VESA:XXXX" string displayed in "System Settings-->Details->Graphics" is because
gnome-control-center will find the driver information via:

(1) parse /var/log/Xorg.0.log and find "VESA VBE OEM Product:" String

(2) if (1) is not found, parse the result of "glxinfo -l" and find "OpenGL renderer string", and use this info as the string being shown.

There're some of AMD's fglrx driver will show "VESA VBE OEM Product: XXXXX" string in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
so this "VESA:XXXXX" string instead of the more accurate string from glxinfo will being shown in the panel.

Use glxinfo's information (when available) first is more accurate.
A proposed patch is attached.

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Tim Chen (timchen119) wrote on 2012-08-23:

gnome-control-center-graphics-info.patch Edit (879 bytes, text/x-diff)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-22:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-10-22:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.