How to know what drivers and video card am I using?

Question

I am running KDE Neon, there isnt an app called software and updates like there is in ubuntu. How do I know that im running not the open source driver and actually using my gpu?

Solution 1

Run the glxinfo command in the terminal:

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Here's a good article - How to get information about graphics card (GPU) on Linux

Solution 2

glxinfo wasn't on the usb boot disk. I read the article above and voila! I ran this from the USB boot cd of 16.04 and it came right up:

lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12

Solution 3

The easiest way to check is go to Settings -> Details -> About

Comments

[Chai T. Rex]

What does that do if there are two different GPUs?

[Maduka Jayalath]

@ChaiT.Rex it will only show the GPU which is currently using