Re: How do I find what drivers are installed
On 29/06/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
You say that, but....
if it is, as, I think, postulated by Sven, the Intel driver that
drives the external monitor, then the question is does Debian 6 have a
driver for the Intel Haswell integrated graphic controller, that can
drive the external monitor?
--
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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