[ale] Finding type of video card

Rob Fauls rob at fauls.com
Mon May 8 17:59:06 EDT 2006


open it up, look at the board, start googling the different chips that 
you see till one turns up a video card...that is, unless its easy to 
spot. then you can skip the google part
-Rob

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> Trying to figure out the video card in an older Dell Dimension box I
> have here.  Knoppix boots and displays on the box fine, but
> /etc/X11/XF86Config shows VendorName and BoardName as "Unknown"
>
> I'm going to be installing OpenBSD 3.9 on this box and know that I'll
> need to enter the video specs by hand.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>   



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