Querying Graphics Card Name

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Benjamin Goldenberg wrote:
> I would like to find out the name of the graphics card of the
> machine my program is running on. I have looked into the pyopengl
> module, and using them to query the card, but it seems like there
> ought to be a simpler way to find this out without setting up a
> glcontext. Does anyone have any ideas?

You could execute glxinfo and look for the renderer string. If
that's sharp enough for your purpose. Another option is lspci.

Regards,


Björn

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