How do I determine which graphics card is being used?

Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 12:32:14 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Scott Beamer
<geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen spake thusly:
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>>       Fedora will not solve your problem.
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> Why not?  I've had varying experiences with various Linux distros. What's
> "broken" on one works fine on another.
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>> The way to tell what your
>> video card is to in a terminal type lspci and that will list what it is.
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> You've obviously not read this thread from the beginning.  I did that to
> start with and determined that the video card is recognized but wasn't
> being utilized due to (then) lack of a proprietary driver.
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>>       Perhaps even back to windows if Ubuntu seems too hard to work
>> with...
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> I never left Windows.
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> I don't limit myself to one OS.
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> While I have your attention, I have some suggested reading for you:
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>   http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
>
Don't bother with Karl, he spouts off about weird things sometimes.
It's just his way of helping.

~SpaceGhost

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