Noob Question

[ImprezaX]

Ok, well never had any luck with my ATI card working in Red Hat 8. I finally upgraded to an Nvidia card and found Steele's walkthrough on how to set it up. And it worked!! I think haha, I have video and it looks good in Gnome, I will try Wine and a game later. My question is actually just :

Is there a way (like a small utility) in Red Hat 8 or available that will tell me the actual driver I am running? I assume I am running what I installed, but I would like to be able to see something that actually says nvidia v.3123 or something so I know I am actually running what I think I am, and know how many versions behind I am for upgrades. I hope this make sense and Steele and everyone else who posted thanks for the help getting this thing working for me.

[Wolfman [TWP]]

There are a couple of ways that I know of.

The first one assumes that the drivers were installed using RPM's.

rpm -qa NVIDIA

This will show you which version has been installed.

Also the other is done, when running games like Q3A for example. When you either bring down the command line using the '~' key. You can then use pageup key to go back through the log, and you should see which driver was initialised. It should show something like, Using Nvidia Driver version 41.91. Or something to that effect. (Or check the system/display menu should show it also.)

I'm not sure how you find out the driver version when it was installed using TAR files. I'm sure that Bwkaz will be able to inform you of that one.

Wolf

[etr]

In recent drivers, you can use "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version".