Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:14:59PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> I also created the Xorg.conf file as mentioned in the wiki. But when I
> rebooted my system Xorg failed to start. So i figured that I am having
> a GPU with optimus support and I do not need the Xorg.conf file but
> instead I need the bumblebee package.
>
> So I installed the bumblebee package.
Right, which one?
root@tal:~# apt-cache search bumblebee
bumblebee-nvidia - NVIDIA Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA
driver
bumblebee - NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux
Note: I know nothing nor had any involvement with bumblebee
> But I just want to make sure that I am running the nvidia driver
> successfully. How can I do that?
Perhaps:
root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video
and/or
lspci -k | grep -C 3 VGA
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