Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.
Anubhav Yadav, please reply to the list only, don't Cc.
Many mails I sent to the list didn't came through, anybody expiring the
same issue?
-------- A reply to Chris that didn't came through the list --------
From: Ralf Mardorf
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver
running.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:45:20 +0100
Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 11:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote a message that
also didn't came through the list:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:50 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:13:21AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:01 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > > root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video
> > >
> > > I would search directly for the driver name ...
> >
> > And if it's not listed? Then you are probably going to have to do a
> > lsmod anyway to see what is listed. I think my way solves the problem in
> > one hit. IOW, don't search for what you *think* should be there, but
> > search for what actually *is* there.
>
> For Arch there isn't an entry "video" and running it as quasi chroot,
> the Arch X anyway will be the used X, so I can't see the Debian's output
> yet. Perhaps it's different for Debian and there are always "video"
> entries.
Resp. if IIUC, when doing a systemd-nspawn -D, the Arch's kernel and
it's modules are used. IOW searching for "video" might not work for all
distros.
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ llmount -w debi386
> [sudo] password for rocketmouse:
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/debi386
> Need to be root.
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/debi386
> Spawning namespace container on /mnt/debi386 (console is /dev/pts/1).
> Init process in the container running as PID 9381.
> root@debi386:~# lsmod | grep video
> root@debi386:~# logout
> Container failed with error code 1.
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ llmount -u debi386
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ lsmod | grep video
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ lsmod | grep radeon
> radeon 1285899 2
> i2c_algo_bit 5399 1 radeon
> drm_kms_helper 36254 1 radeon
> ttm 63475 1 radeon
> drm 238206 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
> i2c_core 24632 5 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$
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