From 5f8122497668841fcabf771b7338529050372776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: amerhifi <amer@highfidelity.io>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 08:59:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] did not work on linux, backing out change

---
 libraries/shared/src/GPUIdent.cpp | 21 +--------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libraries/shared/src/GPUIdent.cpp b/libraries/shared/src/GPUIdent.cpp
index 16c95ff9ce..dcbc83cfc1 100644
--- a/libraries/shared/src/GPUIdent.cpp
+++ b/libraries/shared/src/GPUIdent.cpp
@@ -84,26 +84,7 @@ GPUIdent* GPUIdent::ensureQuery(const QString& vendor, const QString& renderer)
 
     _dedicatedMemoryMB = bestVRAM;
     CGLDestroyRendererInfo(rendererInfo);
-#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
-//get gpu name
-    FILE* stream = popen("system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep Chipset", "r");
-    
-    std::ostringstream hostStream;
-    while (!feof(stream) && !ferror(stream)) {
-        char buf[128];
-        int bytesRead = fread(buf, 1, 128, stream);
-        hostStream.write(buf, bytesRead);
-    }
-    
-    QString result = QString::fromStdString(hostStream.str());
-    QStringList parts = result.split('\n');
-    std::string name;
-    
-    for (int i = 0; i < parts.size(); ++i) {
-        if (parts[i].toLower().contains("radeon") || parts[i].toLower().contains("nvidia")) {
-            _name=parts[i];
-        }
-    }
+
 #elif defined(Q_OS_WIN)
 
     struct ConvertLargeIntegerToQString {