To detect the chipset of your display card on a Linux system, you can use the lspci
command. The lspci
command is a utility that displays information about PCI buses and devices in the system.
To display information about your display card, you can use the -v
flag with the lspci
command. For example:
$ lspci -v | grep -i "VGA"
This will display information about the display card, including the chipset. The output will look something like this:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device 1555 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29 Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at e000 [size=128] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?> Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau
In this example, the chipset of the display card is "GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti]".
You can also use the lshw
command to display information about your hardware, including your display card.