lspci & VGA

[Glenn Robuck]

heh, you got me on the no video card.  :)  I should have clarified "A
computer with a video subsystem."

Good one Charles.

Glenn


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Charles Steinkuehler <
charles at steinkuehler.net> wrote:

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> Glenn Robuck wrote:
> > I have yet to find a single machine (and I just tested it on all 8 in my
> > immediate vicinity) that the command I gave won't give you back the model
> > number of the card.
> >
> > Can anyone provide an example of a machine where:
> >
> > sudo lspci -v | grep VGA
>
> Example 1:  My headless Intel INS1020 (w/o a graphics card of any kind)
> returns nothing.  :)
>
> Example 2: One of the minimal LRP-based routers I have still in
> production returns an error (no sudo command, no lspci command), but
> that's kind of cheating.
>
> I suspect non-pci graphics cards (ie: ISA/EISA) would also not show up
> in lspci output, but that might also be considered cheating, and I have
> no easy way to test this (the minimal systems I currently have assembled
> and ready access to wouldn't be able to boot and run anything that
> includes lspci).
>
> Interestingly, the minimal flash-based debian fanless firewall install I
> showed at the recent KULUA *DOES* properly list the VGA card (AMD Geode
> LX Video), at least if I rip off the sudo part (sudo isn't installed)
> and just run lspci -v | grep VGA as root.  :)
>
> - --
> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
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