Re: sysinfo -ram

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>]

On Friday 27 April 2007 22:37, somethin2cool wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> > somethin2cool@yahoo.com wrote:
> >> How can I find out the speed of my RAM, and the interface that it uses?
> >> I figured there would be a terminal command along the lines of:
> >>
> >> sysinfo -ram
> >
> > try 'dmidecode'
> >
> > Johannes
>
> Thanks. Here is what I tried
>
> dmidecode
>
> bash: dmidecode: command not found
>
> and apt-get install dmidecode is not found
>
> Synaptic says the package is installed

I think you need to run it as root. I just tried it as user on FC2, and got a 
permission denied, but su'ing to root, and running dmidecode gives all the 
output.

Nigel.