Which nivida drivers?

[Corey Kovacs]

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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