Problem
I am trying to install X and it isn't working. I have a nVidia video adapter and I don't know what it really is.
Device is detected like so:
# lspci | grep -i nv
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 06fd (rev a1)
Solution
There is a page with the PCI vendor codes for nVidia
here (www.pcidatabase.com) From that you should be able to figure out which driver/family needs to be installed.
In our example above, the 06fd is a NVidia NVS 295.