[12:26] <BluesKaj> Hiyas all
[13:31] <lordievader> Good afternoon.
[17:28] <elhoir> hello guys, just a question.. hoiw do you know which exasct driver are you using? (radeon, radeonsi, r600.....)?
[17:29] <elhoir> my GPU is an  AMD HD6750
[18:08] <lordievader> elhoir: lspci -k tells you.
[18:08] <lordievader> Or lshw.
[18:10] <elhoir> lspci -k says "radeon"
[18:10] <elhoir> but, it says so even after purging xserver-xorg-video-radeon package
[18:11] <elhoir> thATS WHY I AM NOT SURE
[18:11] <elhoir> oooops
[18:11] <elhoir> thats why i am not sure
[18:25] <lordievader> elhoir: Did you reboot after purging the package?
[19:53] <elhoir> lordievader, cant remember...
[19:53] <TJ-> elhoir: the kernel driver reported by 'lspci' is *not* the same thing as the X server video drivers
[19:53] <lordievader> Well, if it is still loaded it points to a no.
[19:54] <lordievader> That too.
[19:54] <elhoir> TJ-, so... what th am i using? :P
[19:54] <TJ-> elhoir: if nothing is currently depending on the kernel module it can be unloaded with "modprobe -r radeon" but I'd suspect it is driving the TTYs and therefore cannot be removed
[19:56] <TJ-> elhoir: your question is too generic. "you" aren't using a driver, but some software components of the PC are. Which component you mean will require a different answer
[19:57] <TJ-> elhoir: once an exectuable program, or library, is loaded into memory it will remain in-use and available whilst it is linked, even if you unlink (remove) the file it was loaded from.
[19:57] <elhoir> ok... i mean my GPU
[19:58] <elhoir> which driver is it using
[19:58] <elhoir> radeon, radeonsi, r600....
[19:58] <TJ-> elhoir: in reality the file is still there, alive and well and being used. unlink-ing only makes it invisible in the file-system. Once no process has it in use *then* the file will be deleted
[19:58] <elhoir> TJ-, yeah, i understand, you need a reboot to see the differences
[19:58] <TJ-> The GPU kernel module driver for hardware access will be the one reported by 'lspci -k'
[19:58] <elhoir> or a  X restart
[19:59] <elhoir> TJ-, it reports "radeon"
[19:59] <elhoir> is it radeonsi?
[19:59] <TJ-> The 'driver' (shared library) used by the X server will be reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[20:00]  * elhoir is looking for it
[20:00] <elhoir> [    50.022] (II) RADEON(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[20:00] <elhoir> [    50.022] (II) RADEON(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: r600
[20:00] <elhoir> [    50.022] (II) RADEON(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: r600
[20:01] <elhoir>  found (i think)
[20:02] <TJ-> mesa-vdpau-drivers: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so.1.0.0
[20:02] <TJ-> vdpau-va-driver: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.syo
[20:02] <TJ-> libgl1-mesa-dri: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_dri.so
[20:08] <elhoir> and now, why is it using r600 instead of radeonsi?