On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:28:55 James wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
grepping a log file is the most natural way for an experienced unix admin
to do it. It's a useful skill, all newbies should be encouraged (but not
required) to learn it. Sometimes we
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:44:28 Dale wrote:
'm not sure but I think the command had something to do with seeing
what was used to do direct rendering or something. Anybody recall what
I am thinking about?
xdpyinfo?
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On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:11:00 James wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
In cases where a quick command to display something doesn't exist, it's
usually because it never occurred to the developer that there could be
another way I find in my own experience that I
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Weren't you looking for the X video driver? You won't find that in lspci,
it's
a user-space driver loaded by the X server. You may well find information
related to 3D rendering and frame buffers though.
Mine does:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:44:28 Dale wrote:
'm not sure but I think the command had something to do with seeing
what was used to do direct rendering or something. Anybody recall what
I am thinking about?
xdpyinfo?
I don't recall that one. I also
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
Look at lspci -v. It lists quite a few kernel drivers
I'm not sure I follow you.
It was just to answer your 'quip' that grep is my friend. I understand the
difference between a driver lock to hardware, and one that's part of X.
It was
Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com writes:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC)
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
It will tell you which driver it loaded.
Sorry to butt in here.. but Robert can you show a
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:14 -0600
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com writes:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC)
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
It will
Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes:
How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
It will tell you which driver it loaded.
Funny, I have not /etc/log dir on any gentoo system?
I do not have an /etc/X11/log dir either
How do you set up your
Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes:
Its probably right in front of me, but I'm not seeing it, or not
recognizing what I see as being very useful I guess.
(II) LoadModule: nvidia
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:46:31 + (UTC)
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes:
How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
It will tell you which driver it loaded.
Funny, I have not /etc/log dir on
Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes:
My bad, by typoing /etc where I mean /var
Now when you've quite finished kicking me when I'm down... :P
Sorry you took it that way
Anyway, the previous post did say I found /var/log and the X log
files.
Sure, I'm a little frustrated
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:42:20 + (UTC)
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes:
My bad, by typoing /etc where I mean /var
Now when you've quite finished kicking me when I'm down... :P
Sorry you took it that way
I'm not offended. If
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 00:09:19 Robert Bridge wrote:
Sure, I'm a little frustrated with the fact that discovering
the actual video driver file is such a nightmare. It should
be a simple little command of a script one can alias to
a simple command string. I'm not meaning to bash you,
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
In cases where a quick command to display something doesn't exist, it's
usually because it never occurred to the developer that there could be
another way I find in my own experience that I usually know what driver
is being used - I set
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
grepping a log file is the most natural way for an experienced unix admin to
do it. It's a useful skill, all newbies should be encouraged (but not
required) to learn it. Sometimes we experienced admin types lose sight of the
fact that
James wrote:
But, that is the best/only method?
James
There is a way to do this. I used it once but I can't remember the
command and I can't find anything in the old emails. I have emails
going back a lng time but maybe not far enough and not sure if my
search terms are worth a
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