= Facter Tweaks =

== videocard fact ==

This ruby snippet adds a videocard fact to facter.  You can use this fact to decide if you need to install any proprietary video card drivers.  Place in /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/videocard.rb
{{{
#!ruby
# Josko Plazonic - lifted from Josko March 14, 2011 by Thomas Uphill
require 'facter'

Facter.add("videocard") do
	confine :kernel => :linux
	ENV["PATH"]="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
	setcode do
		controllers = []
		lspciexists = system "/bin/bash -c 'which lspci >&/dev//null'"
		if $?.exitstatus == 0
			output = %x{lspci}
			output.each {|s|
				controllers.push($1) if s =~ /VGA compatible controller: (.*)/
			}
		end
		controllers
	end
end
}}}

After installing you should be able to see the fact like so:
{{{
[root@host ~]# facter |grep video
videocard => Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
[root@host ~]# 
}}}