Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video driver discovery
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:08:46
Message-Id: 4951982E.6020607@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video driver discovery by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 >
3 > Weren't you looking for the X video driver? You won't find that in lspci, it's
4 > a user-space driver loaded by the X server. You may well find information
5 > related to 3D rendering and frame buffers though.
6 >
7 >
8
9 Mine does:
10
11 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
12 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
13 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
14 Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
15 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
16 [virtual] Expansion ROM at dd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
17 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
18 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
19 Kernel driver in use: nvidia <<<------------------- This one
20 here.
21 Kernel modules: nvidia
22
23 I'm using the nvidia driver instead of the nv driver that is in the
24 kernel. Correct?
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)