[ale] Finding type of video card

[william at witt-family.net (William Witt)]

If you just need the driver, you should be able to boot knoppix and look 
at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and use what ever driver it uses.

runman wrote:
> Shouldn't it be in your dmesg ?  
>
> # dmesg | less 
>
> should give you the answer
>
> Greg 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Vernard
> Martin
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:08 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Finding type of video card
>
> Trey Sizemore wrote:
>   
>> Trying to figure out the video card in an older Dell Dimension box I 
>> have here.  Knoppix boots and displays on the box fine, but 
>> /etc/X11/XF86Config shows VendorName and BoardName as "Unknown"
>>
>> I'm going to be installing OpenBSD 3.9 on this box and know that I'll 
>> need to enter the video specs by hand.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>   
>>     
> If you have an actual add-on video card plugged into either the AGP or PCI
> slot then you can usually find it by doing an "lspci" command.  
> Usually the video cards are obvious from the rest of the PCI devices.
>
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