What video driver?

[David Curtis]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:54:39 +0000
Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > The newest Ubuntu (9.04 alpha 6) does not use xorg.conf file. How can
> > I tell from the CLI which video driver a system is using? Thanks.
> > 
> 
> # lsmod | grep [suspect]
> 
> would be my first port of call, but I'm not sure how reliable that would 
> be. The only boxes I've got running X are running NVidia proprietary 
> drivers, for which I get:
> 
> jup-linux2:/home/avi# lsmod | grep nvidia
> nvidia               8116592  20
> i2c_core               27776  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
> jup-linux2:/home/avi#
> 
> 

After you've figured out what card you have, you can double check the driver with 'cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule' to see what modules get loaded by X at startup. The 'driver' is one of them.  If you can't see it, post the output of that command here on the list.

Dave