From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MEIVK-0007El-9a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:45:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8574BE054F; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69018E054F for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1870435gxk.10 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:45:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yQixoEeh2lgi8N8YLgXiEz9hQclOGeI/w91MRFgRATA=; b=SwQmfd405lV/VMcow1wU+oK1QYkfhDEFhFNvQvEmYkIAcjWIcBWUe7vx1NGYlpw3Zm SDBWYcUACp4KP2sEiC9UtjEpP60J0s2LoqVvMNhgehN2oAYt+Np/23gBJe+WouIp8CaC FqzPvpwXA0nJs1jSVjpjW/BjVX9CeNh/zmElA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kXBvbipFo1AhtL+M2fSxjW3bgSu34Ri9kI1E1Alff77bH7haCpkAlquzIJ4JK84OwZ y6wU1HcW51DPzk15T8RPD4rOgi7ehajanpzTgLh4/7c/XAOV+M85xzDwEeVMG8uco3QJ abl+mocYZiThRMMqfH68o1OiW7WBHDgJyAYM4= Received: by 10.90.106.3 with SMTP id e3mr879117agc.54.1244619948115; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.165? (r164h165.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm4075034agc.52.2009.06.10.00.45.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A2F64A6.4080802@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:45:42 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? References: <027a01c9e997$bf6ec150$6400a8c0@quan> <5602B0BD6D59AE4791BE83104940118DC26C681E@excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au> <02bd01c9e99e$199639f0$6400a8c0@quan> In-Reply-To: <02bd01c9e99e$199639f0$6400a8c0@quan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 41271be9-c8b9-4508-a792-e324330357e0 X-Archives-Hash: 2782fbdebbccba8df85724e5d188c5d8 James Homuth wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Carter [mailto:Adam.Carter@optus.com.au] > Sent: June 10, 2009 3:18 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? > > lspci | grep VGA > > Or if that doesn't work > > lshw -class display > > > Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel > integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= > option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. > This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference. > > > > These are the available options that I know of: VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia -apm -ark -chips -cirrus -cyrix -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx -glint -i128 -i740 (-impact) -imstt -intel -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nsc -r128 -radeon -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vesa -vga -via -vmware -voodoo" I would start with intel but I think i128 and i740 are Intel as well. You may want to enable vesa as a second option. Sort of a back up to intel and vesa. At least you will have some sort of driver while trying to get the best one working. Dale :-) :-)