nvidia working?

[Chuck Robey]

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John Nielsen wrote:
> Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org>:
>> I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at
>> least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was
>> wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia
>> hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia
>> card working here?  Before I had it working, I was using the vesa
>> driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some
>> program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that.
> 
> btw -questions would probably have been a better forum for this question
> than -hackers.
> 

True, but I didn't open this thread up, I just grabbed onto the tail of one
that was already opened for me.  It was opened on hackers, and I figured it
would be too much, both to hijack a thread because it seemed to be ending,
AND also to redirect it to -questions.  I know I get no credit for
realizing that another list would have beeen better, most especially
because I figured that multimedia would have been the better list, not
- -questions.

> The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of
> your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver
> will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a
> different driver).
> 
> There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts
> that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you
> control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful
> for that. YMMV.
> 

Now, THAT's what i was after, I figure that nvidia-settings thingy ought to
answer my "is my nvidia card working in nvidia mode?" question well enough.

> JN
> 
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