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Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors



On 14/04/2015, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and
>> not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor.
>
> The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS
> that is to be found at the following location: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log') in
> order to know which driver you're using (amongst other things--errors,
> warnings, etc.).
>
> For the driver the following grep ditty seems to work fine:
>
> curty@einstein:~$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver'
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
>      compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 8.95.3
>      Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>
>
>

Thank you for that.

I have just ran it on this (Dell Inspire) desktop system running
Debian 6, to check it, and got

"
:~$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 0.0.15
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
--
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 2.1.17
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
--
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 2.3.0
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
"

and this system shows

"
:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce
310] (rev a2)
"

so I intend to run those two commands in each of the Ubuntu and Debian
installations on the Acer V3-772G system, tomorrow.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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