Re: How to find which driver is being used

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   That config file is from XFree86 3.x.  "accel" means the XF86_SVGA
server.  If you are running XFree86 4.x, there will be a
/var/log/XFree86.0.log file which will tell which config file is
being used, the driver, etc...

			Mark.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Norm wrote:

> I had just finished setting up a new CPU card [which included an on-board
> VGA chipset] with my RedHat 7.2 boot HD and I wanted to do the same thing
> for the RedHat 6.2 boot HD as well.
>
> "Hey, no problem," I said to myself, "I'll just find out which driver the
> 7.2 system is using and switch the 6.2 to the same one."
>
> A half-hour later I was no closer to the answer than I was when I started.
> The board documentation and the XF86Config says that it's an ATI 3D Rage Pro
> chipset and my Windows 2000 boot HD agrees but I couldn't find any file
> anywhere on the HD whose name contained ATI or Rage. The XF86Config contains
> this:
>     Section "Screen"
>             Driver "accel"
>             Device "ATI|3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X"
>             Monitor "My Monitor"
>             Subsection "Display"
>             Depth 16
>             Modes "1024x768"
>             ViewPort 0 0
>             EndSubsection
>     EndSection
>
> which I thought meant that the driver was a file named "accel" but the only
> accel I could find is a SVGAlib test program .
>
> How do I find out the driver and where do I look for the file?
>
> TIA
>     Norm
>
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