Find video card info

[pbenham]

Hi,

is there a quick way (using Casper) to find out which video card is installed in a laptop? I'm thinking I probably need to create an Extension Attribute, but wondered if there was any other way.

thanks

paul

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Paul Benham
Desktop Operations Analyst
Bates College
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pbenham at bates.edu

[tlarkin]

extension attribute would be a good way I think, and you can do it with this code

bash-3.2# system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | awk '/Chipset Model:/ { print $3 }' ATY,RadeonX1600

I do not see a video chipset option in the advanced search data.

-Tom

[jarednichols]

Yep, this is how we do it. Extension Attribute via script

#!/bin/sh

chipset=system_profiler -detaillevel mini | grep Chipset | cut -d : -f 2
echo "<result>$chipset</result>"

j
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Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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