Re: How do I find what drivers are installed
On Monday 29 June 2015 14:02:03 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 16:53 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > The reason that I wanted to know what graphical drivers are in use,
> > and which of the graphical devices they are driving, in addition to
> > which graphical drivers are installed, is, as is shown below, many
> > irrelevant graphical drivers appear to be installed.
> >
> > As has been previously mentioned, the computer has an Intel Sandy
> > Bridge graphics controller, and an nvidia GEForce GT520M graphics
> > device, with nvidia Optimus thingy.
>
> For an Optimus system I think the Intel side is the one that's actually
> connected to the monitor, but it can use the Nvidia GPU to render
> stuff.
>
> So you would need the Intel drivers, and either the proprietary driver
> from Nvidia or the free one called nouveau.
>
> You can read more about it here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
Here we go round the mulberry bush ....
Lisi
>
> Debian does have a tendency to install all available drivers. Handy if
> you switch hardware, but not necessary. So most of the xserver-xorg
> -video-* packages can be removed, except the intel one (and possibly
> nouveau, not sure if it is needed).
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