[ale] Finding type of video card

Vernard Martin vernard at venger.net
Mon May 8 18:07:31 EDT 2006


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?
>   
If you have an actual add-on video card plugged into either the AGP or 
PCI slot then you can usually find it by doing an "lspci" command.  
Usually the video cards are obvious from the rest of the PCI devices.





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