General questions about hardware under Linux/Unix. Use a more specific tag if applicable.
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Getting information on a machine's hardware in Linux
How can I check what hardware I have? (With BIOS version etc.)
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7answers
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How do I find out what hard disks are in the system?
I need to know what hard disks are available, including ones that aren't mounted and possibly aren't formatted. I can't find them in dmesg or /var/log/messages (too much to scroll through). I'm hoping ...
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5answers
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How to know if /dev/sdX is a connected USB or HDD?
How can I know if /dev/sdX is a local HDD or usb key ? best doing this without root privileges.
OK , udevadm helped a lot:
For local HDD:
udevadm info --query=all --name=sdb | grep ID_BUS
E: ...
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1answer
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Can an interupt be processed by software, without hardware support? [closed]
Can an interrupt be processed by software without the need for hardware suppport? Assume an x86 architecture.
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4answers
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Why does Linux scale so well to different hardware platforms?
Why does Linux run well on so many different types of machines - desktops, laptops, servers, embedded devices, mobile phones, etc? Is it mainly because the system is open, so any part of it can be ...
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4answers
455 views
How do I disable or change the caps lock key on my keyboard?
We have ergonomic keyboards at work which I'm not entirely used to. I seem to keep hitting the capslock key while I'm in vim and it's starting to annoy. How can I disable this key, and or change to to ...
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4answers
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My laptop cannot adjust brightness
I have a problem adjusting my laptop's brightness. This is a hardware problem but I can solve it with ccsm, but other programs do not work for me, e.g., xgamma, etc.
Now I am running Fedora 15 and ...
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2answers
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Connecting to wireless router
According to this manual I tried:
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"g\xC6isQ\xFFJ\xEC)\xCD\xBA\xAB\xF2\xFB\xE3F|\xC2T\xF8\x1B\xE8\xE7\x8DvZ.c3\x9F\xC9\x9A" ...
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1answer
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Setting CPU frequency guidelines
I'm changing my CPU frequency because of noisy fan.
I used sudo cpufreq-selector -g powersave for this purpose, but I replaced my Linux system Xubuntu with Lubuntu because it utilizes better ...
5
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1answer
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Get monitor make and model and other info in human readable form
I have extracted the shorthand version of the current monitor attached to the computer.
Here is an example: vendor "VSC", prod id "18500"
In Ubuntu's Monitor Preferences, it is identified as ...
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2answers
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Driver for Intel 2200BG wireless network card
I'm trying to make work my wireless network card Intel 2200BG in my laptop Acer Travelmate 4002WLMI.
I tried so far:
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
...
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2answers
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Run Python Portio script as normal user without root access
I know there are risks running a root script as a normal user, but in this case I don't have a choice and what I am doing is machine related. I have an Small Board Computer that has GPIO ports and I ...
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3answers
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Human readable system memory reading crom CLI?
On OS X, I get a nice human readable system memory reading like so:
printf -v system_memory \
"$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType \
| awk -F ': ' '/^ +Memory: /{print $2}')"
...
2
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2answers
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How to troubleshoot a computer freeze from liveCD?
I'm helping my dad fixing his old computer. I am now running it from Fedora 16 with XFCE Live CD.
If I try to install, as soon as it gets to the part where it writes partition to disk however, the ...
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2answers
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How to determine bitness of hardware and OS?
Output of uname -a on my RHEL 5.4 machine is:
Linux <machine name> 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Does it mean that hardware is 64 bit ...
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0answers
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Hardware problem after fresh Linux Mint install
I've installed Linux Mint, Mate 64bit on my machine.
My configuration:
Desktop PC HP Pro 3400 Series MT
Processor: Intel Core i3 2120 @3.30GHz
Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge
Graphic Interface: ...
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3answers
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Linux/UNIX for older (Pentium 4) laptop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux for low-end hardware and internet browsing
What UNIX or Linux would be the most suitable for my old laptop HP Compaq nx9010 hardware?
Hardware specs:
Chipset: ...
