[sf-lug] Intel graphics chipsets (was /firmware/radeon)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 12:53 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Chaiken, Alison (alison at she-devel.com):
> 
> > Akk asks: 
> > 
> > > how do you find out the chipset on Intel machines? 
> > 
> > How about 'lsmod | grep video'.   That shows, among other entries,
> > 'i915' for my laptop, although it helps to know that 'uvc' is the
> camera
> > and ehci is host-controller. 
> 
> Further automating the process I outlined to Akkana, asking for
> verbose
> lspci data, but for only the video component:
> 
> $ lspci | grep VGA | awk '{print $1}' | xargs lspci -v -s
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP 2X
> (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Xpert 98 RXL AGP 2X
>         Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         I/O ports at 7800 [size=256]
>         Memory at df6ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Expansion ROM at df6c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> $
> 
> (I don't have a machine with Intel video to use for this example.)

The 01:00.0 here is where it is on the PCI bus and has nothing to do
with what chip it is, to be clear. Your earlier messages implied the
contrary.