This command will print out the model and make of your graphics card. This is another command to run on an unknown computer to see what hardware is in it.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12 | head -n 1 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] [1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) |
This command will also print out the required information.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ sudo lshw -numeric -C display [sudo] password for jason: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] [1002:6758] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] [1002] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:35 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:fbcc0000-fbcdffff ioport:ce00(size=256) memory:fbc00000-fbc1ffff |
And this is yet another command that will print the same information.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ inxi -G | head -n 1 Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] |
This is a good way to determine what hardware you have installed in your Linux machine, say if you bought a computer and you want to see what is installed in the slots or built-in to the motherboard. Speaking of motherboards, this command will print out the model and make of your motherboard.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ inxi -M | head -n 1 Machine: Mobo: Gigabyte model: H55-USB3 v: x.x Bios: Award v: F4 date: 02/12/2010 |
Give these a try and see how you go. Linux really does have a million ways of getting hardware information.