Graphics Card

huzo11 · 2020-03-23 03:51:29

Hello,

I use arch on my ThinkPad L450. Today, I was wondering what computer graphics card I was using and I entered the command

sudo lspci -v | less

and faced this output:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Lenovo Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 51
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

So, my question is, is my graphics card not detected here? Is the drivers not installed? What is going here?

Thanks a lot

jonno2002 · 2020-03-23 04:58:42

read the output. it clearly says " Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller" and " Kernel driver in use: i915"

have a decent read of these pages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics

huzo11 · 2020-03-23 05:07:12

jonno2002 wrote:

read the output. it clearly says " Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller" and " Kernel driver in use: i915"
have a decent read of these pages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics

I know. But in this case, is 'Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller' really the graphics card of the device? I thought something is fishy because the name did not seem like a graphics card model at all.

jonno2002 · 2020-03-23 05:14:23

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/th … ries/l450/ under tech specs lists "Graphics - Intel® HD 5500"

most intel cpus have graphics built into them, not all graphics are nvidia/(ati/amd/radeon)

Last edited by jonno2002 (2020-03-23 05:15:08)

huzo11 · 2020-03-23 05:23:48

jonno2002 wrote:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/th … ries/l450/ under tech specs lists "Graphics - Intel® HD 5500"
most intel cpus have graphics built into them, not all graphics are nvidia/(ati/amd/radeon)

That is interesting. I have two questions.
1) Then, why doesnt it just show "Graphics - Intel HD 5500" when I had checked the graphics card?
2) Does this mean that the driver works fine and I do not have to do anything additional?

Thanks a lot mate.

jonno2002 · 2020-03-23 05:38:10

it can only show the info the hardware is supplying to the software, in my case:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 745M] (rev ff)

this particular laptop im on has 2 graphics chips but im not even going to get into switchable graphics as it doesnt concern your system.

as for it working fine... is it working fine ? do you notice any problems ? if not then its working fine, like i said have a good read of the intel graphics section of the wiki

seth · 2020-03-23 06:36:42

1) Then, why doesnt it just show "Graphics - Intel HD 5500" when I had checked the graphics card?

"Checked" *how*?
lspci lists PCI devices, it's not a tool to print for screenshot bragging about your HW.

2) Does this mean that the driver works fine and I do not have to do anything additional?

https://www.wallpapermaiden.com/wallpap … /1280x1024

Read the links jonno2002 posted in comment #2

ewaller · 2020-03-23 13:58:15

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