To find out what kind of video card is installed on your Ubuntu Linux system, you can use the lspci command, which lists the PCI devices connected to your system. Here are the steps:
- Open a terminal window.
- Type the following command and press Enter:
lspci -vnn | grep VGA
This will display information about your video card.
- Look for the line that begins with “VGA compatible controller”. This line will contain the make and model of your video card.
For example, the line might look like this:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
In this example, the video card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970.
Note that the lspci command requires root privileges to run. If you’re not logged in as the root user, you can run the command with the sudo command, like this:
sudo lspci -vnn | grep VGA