On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:19:24PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:

I'm just installing Debian ("testing") on a Viglen Incepta II to be used a general purpose workstation but I don't know what sort of graphics card I should tell it to use in the X configuration (i.e. when I say # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86).

Try typing the command lspci it will tell you what the card is.

Example output from this box is, look for the line that says "VGA comatible controller"

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] (rev 10) 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 19) 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 19) 0000:00:11.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI (rev 10) 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 51) 0000:00:14.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)

Adam