Which nivida drivers?

[Corey Kovacs]

No worries. Glad to help.

C
On Jul 17, 2012 7:31 AM, "Doll, Margaret Ann" <margaret_doll at brown.edu>
wrote:

> 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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