[Gllug] OT new graphics card compatibility

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:04:46PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Ben Fitzgerald spake:
> > as the OP said, lspci will do the job for more info.
> > 
> > e.g.
> > 
> > # lspci -v -s 0:2.0
> > 
> > 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > 	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 001a
> > 	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
> > 	Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > 	Memory at 40600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
> > 	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> 
> I am obviously missing something, but, er, how do you know that
> corresponds to an AGP device?  And, er, how can you determine the
> 2x/4x/8x stuff from that?

Whoops! That will teach me not to read the base of the thread. I see the
poster is looking to buy something, but doesn't yet own one.

I thought he owned one and needed to get more info on it, so I was just
illustrating lspci output that he could use to lookup more info via
google.

cheers,

ben.

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