Bug#242208: ITP: hwinfo -- Hardware identification system
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:45:31PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > This source package contains a hardware detection library (libhd) and
> > a simple program that lists results from it.
>
> And the difference between this and similar libraries already included
> in Debian is ... ?
I think discover is the most used tool (also used in the new
debian-installer), but it does "only" scan the ata-, pci-, pcmcia-,
scsi- and usb-buses. Mdetect is used for mouse detection, and kudzu
.. segfaults on my two computers running unstable ... but I don't
think it can detect keyboards, mouses or monitors.
So what I think hwinfo can do that the other ones can do, is (don't
shoot me if I'm wrong) keyboard and monitor detection. Hwinfo's output
from two computers [1] and [2], is on the web.
The main reason I want to package hwinfo, is that in Debian-Edu we
have experienced that it is a very good tool for detecting hardware
for automatically X configuration (see the xdebconfigurator
package). We're also using discover, kudzu and mdetect and our
experiences tells us that we want hwinfo as well! :)
- Werner
[1] http://skolelinux.no/~werner/hwinfo1.txt
[2] http://skolelinux.no/~werner/hwinfo2.txt
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