How to tell which Xorg video driver is in use.

[Phishfry]

I have figured out 2 ways from the xterm prompt.

glxgears -info|grep GL_RENDERER

glxinfo -B | grep Device

Is there any GUI utility that shows the xorg video driver in use?

 

[eternal_noob]

If you are using bash, try this script:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    logfile=/var/log/Xorg.0.log
else
    logfile="$1"
fi

sed -n 's@.* Loading .*/\(.*\)_drv.so@\1@p' "$logfile" |
    while read driver; do
        if ! grep -q "Unloading $driver" "$logfile"; then
            echo $driver
            break
        fi
    done

Stolen from https://unix.stackexchange.com/ques...which-graphics-driver-xorg-uses/289726#289726

Edit: Ok, you want a gui utility. Don't know any. ;(

 

[Phishfry]

I was really looking for something under the Xorg frameworks. (Not grepping the log)
xrandr --listproviders
Not much useful there.
Might be all I need. Need to see what VESA and SCFB output looks like.

Not real verbose except name:

# xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x49 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 8 associated providers: 0 name:Intel

 

[tingo]

For me, it says "modesetting" but doesn't say AMD or Intel

tingo@kg-core2:~ $ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x46 cap: 0xa, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

adding --verbose doesn't help.

 

[shkhln]

There isn't any such utility, best you can do is checking what drivers are loaded with procstat:

% sudo procstat -v `pgrep Xorg` | grep drivers
 1207        0x801c00000        0x802172000 r-x  456  501   2   1 CN--- vn /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
 1207        0x802372000        0x8023cd000 rw-   45    0   1   0 C---- vn /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

(Note that Xorg is able to use multiple drivers if there is more than one GPU.)

Also, glxinfo shows an OpenGL implementation, which is only tangentially related to Xorg.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

glxgears -info|grep GL_RENDERER

Info Center:



<https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/plasma5-kinfocenter/#dependencies>

% xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x4a cap: 0xa, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 6 outputs: 5 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
%

 

[Phishfry]

Found something with video driver details: graphics/drm_info
drm_info | grep "Driver\|Device"

├───Driver: i915 (Intel Graphics) version 1.6.0 (20200917)
├───Device: PCI 8086:0116 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller

 

[Black_N]

In my case (xf86-video-nv):
# xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 0

There is a Graphics tab in CPU-X, but there is no information about the driver.