Using dmidecode to find out about your hardware

[GreyGeek]

This website:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/whatis-...mputer-system/

has an interesting discussion on how to use dmidecode to determine how much RAM you have and how many empty RAM slots you have.

It also has a nice perl script, memconf, that can give it to you in compact form.

Running dmidecode without any switches completely "decodes" your hardware.

Running "man dmidecode" in a konsole tells you about it. :cool:

[SecretCode]

That's quite cool

Although I doubt the answer: it says my laptop can support 16GB but the specifications from ASUS say 8GB (2 x 4GB).

... I should buy some more RAM anyway

[GreyGeek]

One knowledgeable person commented: "Some BIOS and chipset may not provide accurate information. Usually, you get pretty accurate information from server grade hardware. YMMV.".