[ale] Finding type of video card

[Howard A Story]

Trey Sizemore wrote:

>Trying to figure out the video card in an older Dell Dimension box I
>have here.  Knoppix boots and displays on the box fine, but
>/etc/X11/XF86Config shows VendorName and BoardName as "Unknown"
>
>I'm going to be installing OpenBSD 3.9 on this box and know that I'll
>need to enter the video specs by hand.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>  
>
If the stickers are still on the box and that is the original setup.  
You can go to Dell.com and put the service tag number in.   They will 
query the database and tell you how the system was configured.  I do 
this all the time to get the non-standard drivers, for clients.

ADrin