What video driver?

[David Curtis]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:12:37 +0200
Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Thanks, it appears to be "radeon":
> 
> $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule
> [    0.047283] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
> [    0.047957] (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
> [    0.048327] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> [    0.048800] (II) LoadModule: "record"
> [    0.049177] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> [    0.049656] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
> [    0.050793] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
> [    0.109050] (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
> [    0.109445] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
> [    0.115096] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> [    0.115130] (II) LoadModule: "i2c"
> [    0.523519] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
> [    0.523830] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
> [    0.523869] (II) LoadModule: "exa"
> [    2.651816] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
> [    2.856838] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
> 
> That's the FOSS one, right?

I believe so, the proprietary driver is called 'fglrx'. Although I've never touched an ATI card in my life.


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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>