No output for lspci | grep aphic

[life0riley]

I don't get any output for lspci | grep aphic on my host system.

This is what I see on my host.

$ lspci | grep aphic
$

I see this in my VirtualBox guest.

$ lspci | grep aphic
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter

My host is working good and I don't appear to have any issues with my graphics card. Sound is good and I have the desktop cube enabled.
Is there a reason why I don't see output for my host compared to my VirtualBox guest?

This is my OS and hardware info.
OS info:
Kubuntu 12.04 32-bit on bare metal single boot Desktop
Linux Kernel 3.2.0-52-generic-pae
KDE Platform Version 4.8.5
GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version) 0.97-29ubuntu66

Desktop info:
ASUS CM5570 - AP002
Intel Pentium Processor E5300
ASUS NVidia GeForce GT 610 with 2GB DDR3
6 GB System Ram
3 Western Digital HDs internal
1 Optical Drive internal

[Snowhog]

What's the output of just lspci?

[claydoh]

what is "aphic", or are you simply looking to match the text string? If you are searching for the term, say, "graphic" to see what video card you have, not all vendors use that term in their description. My Intel gpu on my laptop uses the term, but my AMD card in the desktop does not. "VGA" will work better for this.

[life0riley]

This is the output.

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 104a (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation HDMI Audio stub (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
$

[Snowhog]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 104a (rev a1)

So, Graphics isn't in the description.

[life0riley]

what is "aphic", or are you simply looking to match the text string? If you are searching for the term, say, "graphic" to see what video card you have, not all vendors use that term in their description. My Intel gpu on my laptop uses the term, but my AMD card in the desktop does not. "VGA" will work better for this.

I was just matching the text string.

It must be just the term the vendor uses for my gpu. In my case it's "VGA".

$ lspci | grep graphic
$ 
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 104a (rev a1)
$