Which nivida drivers?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> Thanks, Corey.
>
> That gives me the information.
>
I'll second the thanks - I didn't know about the -k flag.

     mark
>
>
> 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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