Antoon Huiskens wrote:
> However, if I run a "modinfo", all I see is the vgatext driver loaded. (I
> noticed that with nvidia cards, modinfo would show the nvidia driver).
>
> # modinfo | egrep 'nv|vga|rad'
> 86 fffffffff7b05000 47a8 99 1 vgatext (VGA text driver v1.38)
> 214 fffffffff7c670a8 b820 - 1 amsrc2 (Audio Sample Rate Conv. #2 1.3)
> 217 fffffffff7f9b000 720178 54 1 nvidia (nvidia %I% May 23 2008 11:26:48)
>
> The output actually shows the nvidia driver loaded, but *not* the radeon or
> radeonhd driver, which is what I would expect.
modinfo reports on kernel modules only - radeon & radeonhd are user-space shared
objects loaded into the Xorg process, not the kernel, so modinfo will never show
them. Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or run pldd on the Xorg process to see which
modules it has loaded.
nvidia provides both kernel & Xorg drivers for their videocards - for all other
graphics cards, the kernel uses the generic vgatext driver instead.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
