Re: nVidia Chip Set

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

hwinfo is very helpful.

# hwinfo --help
Usage: hwinfo [OPTIONS]
Probe for hardware.
Options:
    --<HARDWARE_ITEM>
        This option can be given more than once. Probe for a particular
        HARDWARE_ITEM. Available hardware items are:
        all, arch, bios, block, bluetooth, braille, bridge, camera,
        cdrom, chipcard, cpu, disk, dsl, dvb, fingerprint, floppy,
        framebuffer, gfxcard, hub, ide, isapnp, isdn, joystick, keyboard,
        memory, modem, monitor, mouse, netcard, network, partition,
        pci, pcmcia, pcmcia-ctrl, pppoe, printer, redasd,
        reallyall, scanner, scsi, smp, sound, storage-ctrl, sys, tape,
        tv, uml, usb, usb-ctrl, vbe, wlan, xen, zip [snip]

# hwinfo --gfxcard
28: PCI 105.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)             
  [Created at pci.319]
  Unique ID: ul7N.A_MYUPeZ6pD
  Parent ID: vSkL.Objt6VSItgC
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:05.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x791e "RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x826d 
  Driver: "radeon"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfd9f0000-0xfd9fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xce00-0xceff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xfd800000-0xfd8fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 18 (7921 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d0000791Esv00001043sd0000826Dbc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: radeon is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe radeon"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #28