Find Graphics Card/Driver Details

Question

I have installed Ubuntu 13.04. How can I check that I have a driver for my graphics card installed and see details about it?

Solution 1

You can use glxinfo (form the meta-utils package) for information about your driver and OpenGL.
Run

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

for info about your driver and OpenGL.

You can use lspci for info about your PCI devices (so, VGA too).
Use

lspci -v -s `lspci | awk '/VGA/{print $1}'`

for info about you video card.

Solution 2

Follow System Settings - Software & Updates - Additional Drivers

Comments

[mpen]

glxinfo isn't installed on my system and it's not in apt-get, but the 2nd command worked well. Thank you.

[Roshana Pitigala]

Use sudo apt-get install mesa-utils to install glxinfo