Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:17 -0500, Jeff wrote:
> You could try, as root:
>
> lspci and/or lspci -v
>
> Here's mine for example:
>
> # lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory
> Controller Hub (rev 02)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express
> Root Port (rev 02)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
> Port 1 (rev 01)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
> Port 2 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
> #1 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
> #2 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
> #3 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
> #4 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC
> Interface Bridge (rev 01)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
> Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
> Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
> (rev 01)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7800 GT
> (rev a1)
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 02)
> 04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
>
> >From the list, you can see that my video is nVidia.
>
> HTH!
>
> -Jeff
>
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I'm not sure.  Is there a way of finding out the video card without
> > opening the case and looking?  We have no idea where the manual went...
> >
>


Here's the output of lspci -v on my wife's computer:

catherine ~ # lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741
Host (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 3.5

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port
(virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 99
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: e1000000-e10fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL
Media IO] (rev 36)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev
01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at <unassigned>
        I/O ports at <unassigned>
        I/O ports at <unassigned>
        I/O ports at <unassigned>
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 2

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        I/O ports at e400 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        Memory at e1104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        Memory at e1100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        Memory at e1101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0
Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e1102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
        Memory at e1103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 10
        BIST result: 00
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] AGP version 3.0


But how can I tell what driver I need from this output?

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