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RE: Reading BIOS information



> Greetings folks.
> 
> I've been working on getting a new video card installed in my machine, and
> have what I think is an IRQ conflict (it's PCI, and I think the BIOS is
> assigning it a shared IRQ, which doesn't make it happy).  What I'm
> wondering is if there's any way to read information from the system's BIOS
> (as minor as the BIOS version, or as substantial as the PCI / PnP IRQ
> settings) from within debian, or if I have to reboot each time.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>    Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology
>         University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>    andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin

The command "cat /proc/pci" will give you a readout of what Debian is
seeing.

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-



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