Which nivida drivers?

[Doll, Margaret Ann]

Thanks, Corey.

That gives me the information.



On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs at gmail.com>wrote:

> Margaret, generally speaking, dmidecode is a very useful tool. It's really
> useful when you want to do things like get the gospel truth on how much ram
> is in a machine, number of CPU's, pci slots, serial numbers etc. It reads
> it's information from a dump if the DMI. For your case, it might have been
> much simpler to just use *lspci* ?  Was there any reason that wasn't giving
> you what you needed? I ask because it has always given me what I needed
> when dealing with NVidia drivers.
>
> Now, if you ever want to find out what version your card/kernel is actually
> using at a point in time, simply cat out...
>
> /proc/driver/nvidia/version
>
> I can't remember of that's exactlt right but poke around in the
> /proc/driver/ directory and you'll find it. Another way is to pass *-k* to
> lspci. it will tell you what driver is being used for all devices. At that
> point, you could do *modinfo <drivername>*.  For example on my home
> system....
>
> lspci -k
>
> ...
> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]
> (rev a1)
>         Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 0413
>         Kernel driver in use: nouveau
>
> This is what gets reported with respect to the video card.
>
> Anyway, just some tools and techniques to get you though.
>
> Take care
>
>
> Corey
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Doll, Margaret Ann <
> margaret_doll at brown.edu
> > wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the tip on lshw.  I installed the package.  I had to run it as
> >
> > lshw > ~/hardware.
> >
> > The hardware file then had all the information I needed.  I will look at
> > your other suggestions because keeping up with the nvidia drivers on a
> > linux system is a pain.
> >
> > dmidecode only seemed to give information on devices that were a integral
> > part of the cpu system and not to devices attached to the system such as
> > monitors.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:29 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, Margaret,
> > >
> > > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> > > > I have two systems that need Nivdia drivers, but I don't know which
> > ones.
> > > >
> > > <snip>
> > > Use lshw or dmidecode, through more, and find out what it says it is.
> > Then
> > > go to NVidia's website, and see which driver it wants for
> > > Linux.<http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us>
> > >
> > > Alternatively, add elrepo to your repositories, and install
> kmod-nvidia -
> > > much easier, and it'll autorebuild every time you update to a new
> kernel
> > &
> > > reboot. I'm slowly moving folks here to that.
> > >
> > > Note you *can* explicitly make that the only thing you get from elrepo
> -
> > > you do it in your elrepo.repo config file.
> > >
> > >        mark
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