nvidia driver in use?

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#1

If I do: /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard | grep Driver

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard | grep Driver
  Driver: "nvidia"
  Driver Modules: "nvidia"
  Driver Info #0:

This what I have

But in My Computer / sysinfo I see:

Vendor:  nVidia Corporation
  Model:  GeForce 8500 GT
  Driver:  nv

My nvidia driver is installed via the repo and is:
190.42_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.2

So is it nv or nvidia?

#2

I’ve noticed this in oS11.2. glxinfo reports nvidia vendor, 3D effects and games work, NVidia control center matches the proprietary driver. etc. But to be sure you could

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver

I’d speculate that sysinfo greps something that makes no distinction between ‘nvidia’ and ‘nv’.

#3

Just checked sysinfo:/ in oS11.1/KDE3.5 with ATI card running fglrx_drv.so (ATI’s proprietary driver) and it reports:

Informações do vídeo
Fabricante:  ATI Technologies Inc
  Modelo:  ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
  Driver:  Desconhecido

The last line translates to:


  Driver: Unknown

So it’s not that reliable, really…

#4

There is a difference here in our grep, I used Driver you used driver

You:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver        
        X.Org XInput driver : 4.0                                  
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates//drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/nv_drv.so
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/fbdev_drv.so
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/vesa_drv.so
(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
(II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/nv_drv.so
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/fbdev_drv.so
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/vesa_drv.so
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0

Me:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Driver
        X.Org Video Driver: 5.0
                Driver  "nvidia"
                Driver  "nouveau"
                Driver  "nv"
                Driver  "fbdev"
                Driver  "vesa"
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  190.42  Tue Oct 20 20:42:04 PDT 2009
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
#5

Yep, but “Driver” is not of much use as it will only list all possible drivers found by X.

With “driver”, you see that all drivers are test-loaded by X, and then all except nvidia are unloaded.

If you take a look at the log it possibly will be clearer, but it’s a long read.