Linux Tip No. 21: How to check your video card

a. Check the graphics card
[root@mail docadmin]# /sbin/lspci |grep -i vga
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)

b. Check the video card memory size
[root@mail docadmin]# /sbin/lspci -v -s 00:03.0
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 001e
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 2c00 [size=256]
Memory at f5ff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2