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Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?



* Kent West <westk@acu.edu> [2004:02:07:23:23:21-0600] scribed:
> Roger Chrisman wrote:
<snip />

> >What command would you use to display details about your hardware - cpu, 
> >ram, drives, etc?
> >
> >I know my BIOs tells me some of this. I am looking for a command line tool.
> > 
> >
> "lshw" is what you're looking for. It's in unstable; I'm not sure about 
> stable and/or testing.

As cool as this tool is, pay close attention to the information that it
presents, since some of it is in accurate and suspect.  For example, on
the five (2) debian boxen on which I used it, all of them show 16MB
video memory when, in fact, some have more, some less, but none have
exactly 16MB ;<

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