[sllug-members]: hardware probing question

[Chad Lake]

Spute, Mark K @ CSW-SLC wrote:
> 
> Thanks Gary;
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> what video card I have and how much video RAM, etc.? 
> 
> You might find some of the video card information in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if your server has X installed.  Some information
> on CPU, memory and possibly video card will also be available from
> dmesg.
> 
> I don't have X installed.  It's currently text only.  That is one of the things I want to find out; do I have enough resources to run X, but more importantly to run PHP, MySQL and Mambo (or Joomla) and produce more dynamic content on my site instead of just serving up static webpages, as well as run dovecot, sendmail, procmail, and spamassasin.
>

If you have the hwinfo command installed, you can generally find out a 
lot of information about it with the --gfxcard option.




			-c