Re: rediscovering hardware

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:39 -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I replaced my motherboard after an accident.
> >
> > Everything mostly works, but a lot of the on board hardware (sound in 
> > particular) isn't the same as the old board.
> >
> > I know the installation process (sarge installer) does a great job 
> > finding out what I have and setting it up.
> >
> > How can I "re-discover" the hardware on this machine and remove/add 
> > modules accordingly?
>
>
> With lspci, vim and a console prompt?

I used to do it this way but that was back around slackware 2.0 times.
I've kind of forgotten how to do it, and would prefer to find out how 
discover does it.

0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown 
device 008a (rev a1)
        Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c08
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 185
        Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
        Region 2: Memory at eb005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-