What are the advantages of using a NVIDIA graphics card for research purposes? We do look at a lot of lunar and planet maps. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > No worries. Glad to help. > > C > On Jul 17, 2012 7:31 AM, "Doll, Margaret Ann" <margaret_doll@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- > 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
