Which video driver is running?

dhave · 02-22-2007, 10:17 AM

What's the quickest and easiest way to see which video driver is running on a given system. I know I can read through Xorg.0.log or xorg.conf, but I'd like to know if there's a simple command that I can issue that will show me which driver is running.

Thanks.

andrews-mark · 02-22-2007, 10:38 AM

lsmod will tell you which modules are currently loaded up into the running kernel. most graphics drivers will be modules rather than built-in to the kernel, so whatever you are using should be listed here.

E.g. on my system...

Code:

> lsmod | grep -i nv
nvidia               3914364  12 
agpgart                27208  1 nvidia

..shows me that I am running an nvidia driver

-mark

dhave · 02-22-2007, 11:21 AM

O.K., thanks, andrews-mark. That's how I had been checking, but it's obvious now that the correct module was not being loaded.