Re: [SLUG] Finding Hardware Info

From: Ed Centanni (ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 19:24:59 EDT


There's a lot of this information in the KDE2 Control Center. Look in
the tree on the left hand side for "Information" and click on the "+"
symbol to expand.

Ed.

Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:18:28PM -0100, Chris wrote:
>
> > I would like to find out information about the installed components in a Linux machine. I'm looking for the kind of detailed information that the System, Device Manager tab in windows provides. Video card memory, CD speed, that kind of stuff. Is there a way to get similar information in Linux. I'm using Red Hat 7.0.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I don't know of a GUI way to do this. Check for documents on the "proc"
> filesystem. This is a virtual filesystem (not something actually on your
> hard drive) that resides at /proc and represents much of what the kernel
> knows about your system. It has a variety of "files" in it that you can
> view. For instance,
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
>
> will tell you what interrupts are in use, and often by what devices.
>
> Paul



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