Thanks, Corey. That gives me the information. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Margaret, generally speaking, dmidecode is a very useful tool. It's really > useful when you want to do things like get the gospel truth on how much ram > is in a machine, number of CPU's, pci slots, serial numbers etc. It reads > it's information from a dump if the DMI. For your case, it might have been > much simpler to just use *lspci* ? Was there any reason that wasn't giving > you what you needed? I ask because it has always given me what I needed > when dealing with NVidia drivers. > > Now, if you ever want to find out what version your card/kernel is actually > using at a point in time, simply cat out... > > /proc/driver/nvidia/version > > I can't remember of that's exactlt right but poke around in the > /proc/driver/ directory and you'll find it. Another way is to pass *-k* to > lspci. it will tell you what driver is being used for all devices. At that > point, you could do *modinfo <drivername>*. For example on my home > system.... > > lspci -k > > ... > 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] > (rev a1) > Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 0413 > Kernel driver in use: nouveau > > This is what gets reported with respect to the video card. > > Anyway, just some tools and techniques to get you though. > > Take care > > > Corey > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Doll, Margaret Ann < > margaret_doll@xxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip on lshw. I installed the package. I had to run it as > > > > lshw > ~/hardware. > > > > The hardware file then had all the information I needed. I will look at > > your other suggestions because keeping up with the nvidia drivers on a > > linux system is a pain. > > > > dmidecode only seemed to give information on devices that were a integral > > part of the cpu system and not to devices attached to the system such as > > monitors. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:29 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi, Margaret, > > > > > > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > > > I have two systems that need Nivdia drivers, but I don't know which > > ones. > > > > > > > <snip> > > > Use lshw or dmidecode, through more, and find out what it says it is. > > Then > > > go to NVidia's website, and see which driver it wants for > > > Linux.<http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us> > > > > > > Alternatively, add elrepo to your repositories, and install > kmod-nvidia - > > > much easier, and it'll autorebuild every time you update to a new > kernel > > & > > > reboot. I'm slowly moving folks here to that. > > > > > > Note you *can* explicitly make that the only thing you get from elrepo > - > > > you do it in your elrepo.repo config file. > > > > > > mark > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
