Hardware detection
Hello, I am working on a Fluxbox Debian Pure Blend:
https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox/Blend
Currently, I am going to use discover, mdetect and read-edid for
hardware discovery but found in the repos hwinfo which is used by
Debian Edu and was wondering if this is a better tool. Description
follows:
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Hardware identification system
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than
discover when detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system.
Among others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy,
disks and partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera,
mouse, sound, pppoe, isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb,
memory and smp.
This package does not include the binaries hwscan, hwscand and
hwscanqueue. If you think one or more of these should be included in
the package, please contact the maintainer at
hwinfo@packages.debian.org.
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