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How to find out the internals of a laptop

wilsonsammwilsonsamm
edited April 2008 in Chit chat
So, I got me a laptop the other day
and now I want to find out which graphics chipset/card/whatever it has in it. I think it's an ATI something but I don't know what . . .

This is a fujitsu siemens e series lifebook, and judging by the specs I'd say it's six, seven years old. Anyone know?
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  • milemile
    edited April 2008
    wilsonsamm wrote: »
    So, I got me a laptop the other day
    and now I want to find out which graphics chipset/card/whatever it has in it. I think it's an ATI something but I don't know what . . .

    This is a fujitsu siemens e series lifebook, and judging by the specs I'd say it's six, seven years old. Anyone know?

    have you tried their website, they may be able to provide all the info you need.
  • NickHNickH
    edited April 2008
    Burn a Knoppix CD and boot up with it.
  • wilsonsammwilsonsamm
    edited April 2008
    NickH wrote: »
    Burn a Knoppix CD and boot up with it.
    well I've got debian etch running on it at the moment, so is there something I can type to probe this hardware?
  • wilsonsammwilsonsamm
    edited April 2008
    Thanks, I found it out by looking on the site
    it was a bit tricky, finding the right laptop since I didn't know which one it was to begin with.

    I have an ATI rage mobility M6, apparently.

    Now to see what kind of accelerations I can stick into my X server configuration.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited April 2008
    Ah - if you're running Linux, just type 'lspci' in a command prompt. It tells you about all the devices on the bus.
  • bleughbleugh
    edited April 2008
    assuming it's running XP

    start menu
    settings
    control panel
    go to system

    the 'general' tab shows the processor and memory


    click 'hardware' tab
    then device manager

    now you can go through the list and see what's in there

    i.e. click 'display adapter'
    and it will tell you what driver is installed, which 9/10 times is the graphics card used



    I find it unlikley guys that it's running linux - that requires a bit of knowledge about PC's, which would usually imply this sort of question wouldn't be asked if that were the case



    or, you can download sisoft SANDRA, that gives a good rundown of what's in there
  • WinstonWinston
    edited April 2008
    bleugh wrote: »
    I find it unlikley guys that it's running linux - that requires a bit of knowledge about PC's, which would usually imply this sort of question wouldn't be asked if that were the case

    He mentions he wants to modify his X server settings. The X server is the unix graphical layer so he's either running Linux or a BSD variant.

    These days with Ubuntu, it takes very little PC knowledge to get Linux running, for most machines, the knowledge required is how to put a CD-ROM in the drive and boot the machine.
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