Yes - you would see a reference to nvidia if you had a nvidia graphics card. The output shows that you have an onboard intel grapihcs card. The G31 should be good enough for web/work/video stuff - but may be a bit low-power for 3d games. If you don't need fancy 3D then you'll probably be right to stick with the onboard graphics
2009/11/11 OPM595 <opm...@yahoo.com.au>: > Thanks for the reply, Guys. > Sorry about the lack of info in my initial post. > > Opening a terminal and doing "lspci | grep VGA" gives me the folowing: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10) > > Now, I'm a little green on this, but if there was a Nvidia Geforce > installed would there not be some sort of reference to it here (terminal > output), proving it's existence? > > And adding to this, when I took delivery of the machine, the first thing I > did was to go to the Nvidia site, and downloaded: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run > believing the Nvidia Geforce was supplied as advertised. > I got to the point of running the install after doing the chmod +x and > then running, and so forth but, unsurprisingly received: > > WARNING: You do not appear to have an NVIDIA GPU supported by the > 185.18.36 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver installed in this system. > > I think from the feedback on this, my crystal ball is telling me to save > the stress and just buy a compatible card. I think most Nvidia cards are > pretty safe, aren't they? I'm not hoping to do anything special. It's just > getting a bit frustrating when doing things like browsing in Fox and you > have to scroll like eighteen meters to the right to read the whole page (a > little exaggerated, but you get my point). > > Once again, many thanks for the response on this. It is very much > appreciated. > > Regards, > Rob > > > > > > > -- > =============================================== > Local Id: OPM595 > Email: opm...@yahoo.com.au > PO Box 190, Narellan NSW 2567 Australia > > Aude aliquid dignum - "Dare Something Worthy" > =============================================== > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- Joan Crawford - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
