Re: [LUG] Flat Screens

[james kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:56 +0000, John Horne wrote:
in answer to my
>  How can I check what
> > driver is being used (Kubuntu 7.04 64 AMD)?
> > 
> Probably the 'lsmod' command will tell you. I'm using the 'radeon'
> driver, and lsmod shows:
> 
>   radeon                114401  2
>   drm                    68181  3 radeon

Dear John and all

Mine says  similar
radeon      126368  2
drm         103464  3 radeon


> 
> Details about the driver being used should be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (this is Fedora, so might be different for kubuntu.)
it's the same and
near the top

 Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov  3 10:16:02 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "VA1912wSERIE"
(**) |   |-->Device "ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300
(PCIE)]"

and lower down

LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 6.6.3
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.1

Does this help?
-- 
james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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