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I'm on Linux, and I need to figure out the brand/version of my graphics card to download drivers for it. I'm pretty sure it's an ATI Radeon, but that's as far as it gets. Anyone know how? I've been playing around /proc and apropos all day and can't find an answer.
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coppro wrote:
I'm on Linux, and I need to figure out the brand/version of my graphics card to download drivers for it. I'm pretty sure it's an ATI Radeon, but that's as far as it gets. Anyone know how? I've been playing around /proc and apropos all day and can't find an answer.
How about opening the case, removing the card and reading the labels?

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Too much work, and on a laptop machine, there may not be an accessible label. They solder the graphics cards in usually, and what happens if the label is on the wrong side?

EDIT: Also, in case anyone cares, I'm trying to run Spring.
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coppro wrote:
Too much work, and on a laptop machine, there may not be an accessible label. They solder the graphics cards in usually, and what happens if the label is on the wrong side?

EDIT: Also, in case anyone cares, I'm trying to run Spring.
If you're on a laptop, the manufacturers website is nearly always the best bet. There is usually somewhere you can type in your serial number and it will select drivers for you.

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Wait, it's a Radeon? I was under the impression that Radeon cards all take the same driver.

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coppro wrote:
I'm on Linux, and I need to figure out the brand/version of my graphics card to download drivers for it. I'm pretty sure it's an ATI Radeon, but that's as far as it gets. Anyone know how? I've been playing around /proc and apropos all day and can't find an answer.
lspci
should do it. For Debian (and probably Ubuntu), it can be found in the pciutils package.

Look for output like this:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS


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coppro, it may seem a bit strangethat I am answering a technical question, but here goes ; is there not a simple thing you can click on somewhere in a PC which gives you all the info on the innards

<----- like this,

Forgive me if that seems out of place, but sometimes people who are particularly technically astute just overlook the simple things.
(and if I can do it instantly it has to be easy) :P

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Elfstone wrote:
coppro, it may seem a bit strangethat I am answering a technical question, but here goes ; is there not a simple thing you can click on somewhere in a PC which gives you all the info on the innards

<----- like this,

Forgive me if that seems out of place, but sometimes people who are particularly technically astute just overlook the simple things.
(and if I can do it instantly it has to be easy) :P

...and since the same thing also exists in Windows, it is completely plausible.
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Coppro may not be running a graphical interface (like X-Windows which can look similar to Windows or OS-X). A lot of Linux boxes only have text mode so it can be difficult to figure out which program does what. I remember struggling to find out how much RAM there was on my Linux box at work...
09-21-2007 at 05:44 PM
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Well thanks for all the answers, everyone, but I managed to find that I'm on an X300 (the M300 designation seems to be just the mobile X300) in my boot logs (no joke).

@Elfstone: There is one, but the data on KDE is much more technical, and doesn't contain all the information "niced up" the way Mac and Windows do. Just to know

@Syntax: shouldn't "cat /proc/meminfo" have the total amount of RAM at the top (mine says "MemTotal: 1035648 kB" and it's got 1GB RAM and 1GB swap)?
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KDE ?

How about K > System > KInfoCenter ?

or 
kinfocenter
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That says nothing about my graphics card, near as I can tell (it regurgitates glxinfo, but that doesn't say much).
09-23-2007 at 04:21 PM
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coppro wrote:
That says nothing about my graphics card, near as I can tell (it regurgitates glxinfo, but that doesn't say much).
So... did you sort out your original problem by now?

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Yeah. I discovered that ATI's drivers are horrible and they can't even identify that I'm using their graphics card. I guess I've got to wait for the OSS ones. :(
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You mention glxinfo, so I assume you are using X.

If you start x as follows:

startx -- -logverbose 5

It will give ALL SORTS OF LOVELY STUFF in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Mine gives about 1,080 lines of hardware information (!)

As for the video card, even removing all the stuff relating to the monitor, I still get:

Click here to view the secret text


which is enough :-)

NB. This is on FreeBSD but it should be the same on Linux

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