On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:16 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:36:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 18:44 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> Fedora always used to have a hardware browser; for a while it had
>> two, one with endless cryptic detail, and one highly simplified.
>>
>> Now I find neither. Has it (or have they) been renamed? Can I add
>> it with yum? Some other way?
>>
>>
> yum install lshw-gui
>
> should see you sorted.
Hmm ... Neat name, impressive command; but is there a way to make
it usable by subtechnoids? Can I pipe the -xml or -html options into a
browser, for instance? Or something into baobab for it to use as labels?
No idea badbob etc.. but lshw-gui will tell you make of card, model of
moderboard in simple english, either through the GUI "Hardware Lister"
or the cli as roor lshw
#lshw
<snip>
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G70 [GeForce 7600 GS]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller
bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
</snip>
Frank