[Tfug] video card

[erich]

OK,
      I've done an Ubuntu install already, (I'm not a Mark Shuttleworth 
fan),
and there's a lot of stuff that goes on unbeknownst to the installer. I'm
building up another system using Gentoo, and it ain't easy. Their latest
LiveCD had a lot of user unfriendlyness, but that's alright I'm used
to building the kernel myself. I don't use automatic generation software
such as genkernel either. I just use the make menuconfig command  like
anybody that builds the 2.6.xx kernel.

     I don't know that much about Ubuntu. There are standard module
commands in Linux that you might want to read up on such as
modprobe & lsmod.

     Linux suffers from a lot standardization  problems. The language
of Gentoo users is not spoken by Fedora users/Mandriva users/Debian
users. There is inefficient use of  scarce talent because each distro has
to figure out how to  massage a FSF product to it's distro. I've often
wondered how much communication needs to take place when the
latest version of say, KDE, gets put into an *rpm or a *deb or a
bunch of ebuilds for Gentoo.

                                                                                       
Erich

arizray at comcast.net wrote:
> I should have mentioned the OS is Ubuntu 8.10
>
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE 
> DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 
> 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) 
> USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC 
> Interface Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
> SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 
> (rev 0a)
> 01:00.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 0a)
> 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940
> 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 
> Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE 
> (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 82)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "erich" <erich1 at copper.net>
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:25:38 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain 
> Time (Arizona)
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] video card
>
> OK,
>        The first thing to do is check the kernel configuration. If you
> have a distro that has the option
> of a default configuration. Chances are that the drivers are modularized
> and the hardware detection
> procedure will activate a module  for each video chip. I don't know what
> your distro is, but
> they all have some mechanism  for activating modules at bootup. Check  
> that first.
>
>         The lspci is a command also worth running.
>
>                                                                        
>                                                            
> Erich
> arizray at comcast.net wrote:
> > I recently added a ATI Radeon v7500 video card to my box via the pci
> > slot. It worked out of the box. I am unable however to run compiz
> > because it apparently is detecting two video chips. Since there was a
> > on-board video card (I disabled in bios) it sees the two chips. I need
> > a workaround. I wonder if there is a command to tell me what hardware
> > is being detected, etc.
> >
> > Appreciate the help...
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