Want ALL the skinny on your hardware?

[GreyGeek]

Then install hwinfo

sudo apt-get install hwinfo

and in a Konsole run

sudo hwinfo > hwinfo_output.txt

That text file will have your user name and group on it so you can open it with kwrite and browse to your heart's content. EVERYTHING you wanted to know about your hardware but didn't know how to ask is in that file.

[Snowhog]

Re: Want ALL the skinny on your hardware?

lshw is a much nicer utility. It has an option to generate the output in html so that you can view it in your browser.

sudo apt-get install lshw
sudo lshw -html > myhw.html

Try it. You'll like it - a lot!

[ajk95]

Re: Want ALL the skinny on your hardware?

LSHW appears to be pre-installed on Karmic.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Want ALL the skinny on your hardware?

I'm familiar with lshw, but hwinfo gives a TON MORE information... a LOT of detail that lshw does not. Have you tried it?

ajk95@f
It is not preinstalled on Lucid.

[Snowhog]

Re: Want ALL the skinny on your hardware?

I'm familiar with lshw, but hwinfo gives a TON MORE information... a LOT of detail that lshw does not. Have you tried it?

Loaded and ran it after seeing your post. I'll have to take a closer look at the resulting output.

[sithlord48]

Re: Want ALL the skinny on your hardware?

wow thats a lot out info about my machine! almost to much...

size of (comand > ~/file)
hwinfo = 480K
lshw = 16K