On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:35:00 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:45 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> (The machine was built for me, to my budget, by an electronic friend;
> but I haven't found a way to ask it what video card it has, and I hate
> to ask him to dig through his records (if any) to find out.)
You can try "dmidecode" (it's a command line tool).
Well, at least some of that is in English. I went through it,
line by line, a couple of times. But all I could see that might be
relevant was this :
===== ===== =====
Handle 0x0023, DMI type 10, 6 bytes.
On Board Device Information
Type: Video
Status: Enabled
Description: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
===== ===== =====
Is there something else I should be looking for?? What I know of
hardware would go in a gnat's eye -- and never discommode the gnat.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
nine (count 'em -- nine) different browsers
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.