I have laptop with two graphic cards one build in Intel and the other is nvidia GeForce. I've installed Xubuntu 16.04 and now I want to check which graphic card is used by the system. Probably build in because there are not drivers for Nvidia but I want to be sure.
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inxi is a helpful little system info tool that collects all kinds of information about your soft- and hardware and outputs the user relevant pieces in a nice and understandable format.
You install it using sudo apt-get install inxi.
Then you can run inxi -G to print graphics related information.
Here's an example from my hardware:
$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M]
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.03hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 940M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.44
You see I have a built-in Intel graphics chip and an Nvidia chip. The active device is my Nvidia chip.
Byte Commander
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I already have inxi installed after fresh install of Xubuntu. – jcubic Oct 01 '16 at 10:45
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How do you know NVIDIA is the running card? – Adi Yono Mar 24 '19 at 13:49
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@AdiYono It is referred to in the `GLX Renderer:` line. – Byte Commander Mar 24 '19 at 16:16