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Posted: **Mon 27 Jun 2011, 01:39**

Video Info GLX

Summary report:
Distro, kernel, architecture

Display adapter model, manufacturer & product codes

Xserver and current Driver

X.org version

Current resolution and depth

Direct Rendering status

GLX and OpenGL vendor and versions

CPU model and current core speeds

All in one screen and recorded to text file /tmp/root/video-info-glx

Most useful when X is running, though video-info-glx also works from the console when X is not running--when current resolution and OpenGL status is not available.

Simple bash script. OpenGL data reported if glxinfo is present and X is running. Resolution data gleaned from xdpyinfo or fallback to xrandr.

Based on http://www.free3d.org/#hardware_benchmarks, report-video by BarryK, pcpufreq by Iguleder

Bugs
If a report indicates 'Driver: unknown', I would like to correct that. You can help by gzipping (or renaming to Xlog.gz) and attaching to a PM to me the associated X log, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, or the output of sys-info, which generates a more complete view of the system and saves it to a gzipped archive, ready for posting.

One report of X crash, probably only if glxinfo is present, but Mesa GLX libraries and/or DRI modules aren't available. Workaround: use video-info / sys-info instead.

Change log
13.03.14 1.5.3 Changed comment punctuation in .desktop from '/' to '&', thanks to Radky
13.03.02 1.5.2 Bugfix pinstall.sh for Woof build, thanks to 01micko.
Fix driver detection in VirtualBox guest

130202 1.5.1 Renamed to video-info-glx.
120902 0.9.3 Bugfix: incorrectly detected vesa, thanks to BarryK, 01micko
120813 0.9.1 Include ATI/NVIDIA proprietary driver info even if glxinfo not available
Inc. arch (uname -rsm)

120714 0.8 Improved video driver detection (thanks to Lobster)
New CL option -a or --hardinfo appends hardinfo to report, (thanks to gcmartin.)
Bugfix: CL option -cl sometimes started the gui.
Fix occasional hang. Incl. processor design freq (if avail) and @scaled freq.
Cleaned up driver display.

110912 0.6 Driver detection to support Xorg 1.9.5 or earlier.
110626 0.4 Better driver detection. Thanks to Billtoo and Roy for their help with testing.
110417 0.3 Removed colrm usage from script and improved detection of Xorg driver. GUI if X is running.

110415 0.2 Initial release

-TaZoC

Posted: **Thu 18 Aug 2011, 17:33**

The 0.4 does not work with puppy 4.2.1. It claims that Xorg is not running.

Glxgears and glxinfo works fine and reports: direct rendering: yes

With kind regards

Jan

Posted: **Sat 20 Aug 2011, 02:34**

Hi Jan,
Can you paste this into a terminal window please:

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ps -eo comm | grep ^X
readlink /usr/bin/X
which xdpyinfo
which xrandr
which glxinfo
glxinfo 2>/dev/null | grep -E -A2 "direct rendering|OpenGL vendor" | grep -v '\-\-'

and paste the output here so that I can modify the script.

Thank you,
TazOC

Posted: **Sat 20 Aug 2011, 20:03**

Hi tazoc, hehehe your a bit too late or I'm too fast - I have moved to Wary 5.1.3 and here the script works:) Actually allot of things work better than in 4.2.1 - and some things are missing.

I have a rule that if I have tried to get something to work for 1 month then I move on:)

But I will see if it can be done with the livecd:)

With kind regards

Jan

Posted: **Sat 20 Aug 2011, 20:52**

Insomniacno1 wrote:Hi tazoc, hehehe your a bit too late or I'm too fast - I have moved to Wary 5.1.3 and here the script works:) Actually allot of things work better than in 4.2.1 - and some things are missing.

I have a rule that if I have tried to get something to work for 1 month then I move on:)

But I will see if it can be done with the livecd:)

With kind regards

Jan

No problem, I should have a CD of 4.x around here somewhere... if anyone else would like this tweaked for a specific Pup version, let us know. Glad to hear that it works in Wary.

Have a nice weekend,
TazOC

Posted: **Wed 14 Sep 2011, 03:12**

report-video-glx version 0.6

Driver detection to support Xorg 1.9.5 or earlier.

-TaZoC

Posted: **Mon 06 Feb 2012, 18:34**

In Slacko 531, I installed the ati_fglrx-11.8.pet downloaded from Slickpet>Drivers>Test your graphics card, and the ATI Catalyst Control Center reported working, but your report-video-glx ver 0.6 still showed the driver as vesa.
However,glxinfo in console is correct and gkxgears running OK. My graphics card is Radeon HD5450 (and not 5430 as report-video stated)

Posted: **Fri 20 Jul 2012, 20:40**

PenguinPupLin,
If the latest version still reports incorrect driver, please gzip /var/log/Xorg.0.log and attach it to a reply or use sys-info for the same.

report-video-glx-0.8 changelog

Improved video driver detection (thanks to Lobster)
New CL option -a or --hardinfo appends hardinfo to report, (thanks to gcmartin.)
Bugfix: CL option -cl sometimes started the gui.
Fix occasional hang. Processor design freq (if avail) and @scaled freq.
Cleaned up driver display.

TaZoC

Posted: **Sat 21 Jul 2012, 20:20**

tazoc
Thanks for this latest version. Working fine with Slacko 5.3.3.2

Posted: **Sat 21 Jul 2012, 20:27**

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report-video-glx 0.8 Sat 21 Jul 2012 on Racy Puppy-5.2.2  Linux 3.0.7
 5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]  
 oem: ATI ATOMBIOS  product: RS780M 01.00  

X Server: Xorg   Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.0
  dimensions:    1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
  depth of root window:    24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3

 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor L310
 Core 0: @1196  1: @1196  MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-

Posted: **Sun 02 Sep 2012, 18:30**

0.9.3 Bugfix: sometimes incorrectly detected vesa, thanks to BarryK, 01micko

0.9.1 Include ATI/NVIDIA proprietary driver info even if glxinfo not available
Inc. arch (uname -rsm)

-TaZoC

Posted: **Mon 04 Feb 2013, 18:39**

1.5.1 report-video-glx renamed to video-info-glx

-TaZoC

Posted: **Fri 15 Feb 2013, 13:46**

Hi TaZoC

I miss the -d option

( I still link to report-video for slacko )

Posted: **Fri 08 Mar 2013, 20:15**

1.5.2 Bugfixed pinstall.sh for Woof build, thanks to 01micko.
Improved driver detection in VirtualBox guest.

-TaZoC

Posted: **Thu 14 Mar 2013, 22:34**

1.5.3 Changed comment punctuation in .desktop from '/' to '&', thanks to Radky

-TaZoC

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video-info-glx 1.5.3 (previously known as report-video-glx)

video-info-glx 1.5.3 (previously known as report-video-glx)

report-video-glx-0.6 released

report-video-glx-0.8

report-video-glx-0.8

Working in racy 5.2.2

report-video-glx 0.9.3

video-info-glx 1.5.1 released

video-info-glx 1.5.2 released

video-info-glx 1.5.3