William Case wrote:
Hi Charles:
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 23:46 -0400, Charles MacDonald wrote:
I have just bought a new generic computer using a Gigabyte Intel core
duo board.
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L Motherboard
My motherboard is an Intel Gigabyte GA G31M-ES2L. Perhaps the 'E'
signifies a different video card, but I don't think so.
~]$ lspci | grep nVidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT
(rev a1)
Well William, you are a least giving me some hints..
It does look like I have intel made intel video
cmacd@core2blk:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM
Controller (rev 10)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
At the risk of insulting you with things you already know or have
checked: lsmod will also tell you if you are running the 'nv' driver or
not; or look directly in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Can't possibly insult me if I ask, I used to remember all this stuff,
but when I only change my computer every 5 years or so-- I forget! that
is why I am wonting to know where to look.
xorg.conf is also a bit vague
.....
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
....
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "True"
EndSection