On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:08, Denis <denis....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > This will probably sound simplistic to most... I'm setting up an > older Dell PC, and I used genkernel to get it up and running, but how > do I figure out which drivers I actually need without knowing for sure > which hardware I have in the machine? Genkernel loads a lot of > drivers, and the kernel takes a very long time to compile - I > understand why, and I'm not complaining about that. But suppose I now > wanted to set up the X server, and I don't know which graphics driver > I need to choose. Or, suppose I wanted to compile the kernel myself, > and I don't really know which drivers I *must* select (since I don't > know which chips the machine has). Does anyone have any tips on this? >
You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. If you use it with the "-v" flag it will tell you the driver the kernel is using for it. -- Daniel da Veiga
