On Monday 29 June 2015 14:02:03 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 16:53 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > The reason that I wanted to know what graphical drivers are in use, > > and which of the graphical devices they are driving, in addition to > > which graphical drivers are installed, is, as is shown below, many > > irrelevant graphical drivers appear to be installed. > > > > As has been previously mentioned, the computer has an Intel Sandy > > Bridge graphics controller, and an nvidia GEForce GT520M graphics > > device, with nvidia Optimus thingy. > > For an Optimus system I think the Intel side is the one that's actually > connected to the monitor, but it can use the Nvidia GPU to render > stuff. > > So you would need the Intel drivers, and either the proprietary driver > from Nvidia or the free one called nouveau. > > You can read more about it here: > https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
Here we go round the mulberry bush .... Lisi > > Debian does have a tendency to install all available drivers. Handy if > you switch hardware, but not necessary. So most of the xserver-xorg > -video-* packages can be removed, except the intel one (and possibly > nouveau, not sure if it is needed). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506291538.36711.lisi.re...@gmail.com