Enhancement Advisory hwdata enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2008:0765-1
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-24
Last updated on: 2008-07-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated hwdata package that adds enhancements is now available.

The hwdata package contains tools for accessing and displaying hardware
identification and configuration data.

This updated package adds the following enhancements:

* the NVIDIA Quadro FX 560 and FX 1600 cards have been added to the pci.ids
database.

* the following monitors have been added to the MonitorsDB database: Acer
AL1916W, EIZO FlexScan L568 and L568D, Samsung SyncMaster 795DF, 205BW,
206BW, 225BW, 226BW, and 931BF.

* entries for the AMD SB700 and SB800 SATA controllers have been added to
the pci.ids database.

* mappings between module names and ATA/SATA controllers have been added to
the pcitables database.

* the MonitorsDB database has been updated to remove duplicate entries.

* the pci.ids and usb.ids databases have been updated with many entries for
new hardware.

* over 600 LG monitors have been added to the MonitorsDB database.

Users of hwdata are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds
these enhancements.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.src.rpm     5ea42fae4f6091eba5453257969292de
 
IA-32:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
x86_64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.src.rpm     5ea42fae4f6091eba5453257969292de
 
IA-32:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
IA-64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
PPC:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
s390:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
s390x:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
x86_64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.src.rpm     5ea42fae4f6091eba5453257969292de
 
IA-32:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
IA-64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
x86_64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.src.rpm     5ea42fae4f6091eba5453257969292de
 
IA-32:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
IA-64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
x86_64:
hwdata-0.146.33.EL-11.noarch.rpm     371fe271b69e9c20065891c5afdc5fde
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

299911 - We need SB800 pci.ids file updated in RHEL4.7
418631 - Penguin Computing needs changes to pcitable
428829 - hwdata, MonitorsDB, LG List
441478 - Pull Beta PCI ids from SourceForge for RHEL 4.7 Beta
441479 - Pull Final PCI ids from SourceForge for RHEL 4.7
450605 - Installer does not start SATA AHCI driver automatically


Keywords

MonitorsDB, pci.ids, pcitables, update


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