David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:

On or about Tuesday 02 June 2009 at approximately 22:52:32 Hawit composed:

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I have Sony Vaio VGN-SZ38 GP and on Windows platform, I can check that my chipset is Intel 945, and powered by NVIDIA. So is that mean I should install NVIDIA driver to get best performance for my GUI?

I tried to install NVIDIA via one click install, but didnt work, the screen went blank.

Open a terminal (xterm or konsole) and post the output of:

lspci -v

and as root, also post:

hwinfo --gfxcard

If it is an Intel Card, you are not going to get the NVidia driver to drive the display. Who know, your motherboard may have an NVidia chipset/controller, but your graphics card is the Intel 945.

(Bailing wire and duct-tape -- any combination of chips will do these days ;-)

here is my lspaci -v result: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81e6 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at dc200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at dc300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Kernel modules: intelfb 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81e6 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at dc280000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 and hwinfo: 09: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.318] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27a2 Unique ID: _Znp.z4+RYGeWogD SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel 945 GM" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x27a2 "945 GM" SubVendor: pci 0x104d "Sony Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x81e6 Revision: 0x03 Memory Range: 0xdc200000-0xdc27ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x1800-0x1807 (rw) Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xdc300000-0xdc33ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (7058143 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027A2sv0000104Dsd000081E6bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel 3D Support: yes Extensions: dri Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 10: PCI 02.1: 0380 Display controller [Created at pci.318] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27a6 Unique ID: ruGf.1nBKupHIfR4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.1 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x27a6 "Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x104d "Sony Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x81e6 Revision: 0x03 Memory Range: 0xdc280000-0xdc2fffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027A6sv0000104Dsd000081E6bc03sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #9 so i think it's definitely Intel, not NVIDIA. It's just i have an NVIDIA logo on my notebook that confuses me :P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org