You could try, as root:
lspci and/or lspci -v
Here's mine for example:
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory
Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express
Root Port (rev 02)
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
#1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#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.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7800 GT
(rev a1)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)
04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
>From the list, you can see that my video is nVidia.
HTH!
-Jeff
Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600
>>Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I
>>>generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure when I first installed
>>>Gentoo on it for her, but her screen still flickers. Is there any way
>>>to find out what drivers would need to be installed (if the drivers
>>>are the problem)?
>>>
>>
>>This is probably a driver problem. Are you using the vesa driver?
>>When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I
>>downloaded the NVidia driver. With the vesa driver I too had
>>flickers. However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went
>>away.
>>
>>What type of video card do you have?
>>
>>Jim
>
>
> I'm not sure. Is there a way of finding out the video card without
> opening the case and looking? We have no idea where the manual went...
>
--
Jabba the Hutt:
Bring me Solo and the Wookiee! They will all suffer
for this outrage.
--
[email protected] mailing list
