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Writing triggers for mcelog
Just starting to look into mcelog for the first time (I've enabled it and seen syslog output before, but this is the first time I'm trying to do something non-default). I'm looking for information on ...
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How can I find the hardware model in Linux?
I used a system information utility to take the model number of a system, and also of the motherboard.
DMI System Manufacturer LENOVO
DMI System Product 2306CTO
DMI System Version ...
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How to detect a possible hardware error?
I'm running Debian Wheezy on a HP Pavilion dv7 laptop and it freezes every now and then, requiring a reboot. One time it didn't even load the operating system, but it wasn't I who was using it so I ...
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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}')"
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Obtaining the staus of all input/output ports connnected to system
What's the command to list the all I/O ports connected to system?
Also, how do I get the status of all individual ports?
For example: printer
How do I determine whether a printer is ready to print ...
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How to monitor RAM ECC errors on Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 processor in Linux?
How can I monitor if there are any errors in RAM that get corrected by ECC? The processor is an Intel Xeon (Ivy Bridge) processor, the operating system is Scientific Linux 6.3. On a previous system I ...
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Why Nmap fragmented scan on Linux is only working from virtual environment?
OLD QUESTION AND TITLE (Look further down for the updated question):
Why Nmap fragmented scan is only working on Backtrack?
I spent quite a few hours today trying to capture and study some ...
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How to list all hardware supported by kernel
I want to see all hardware supported by the kernel in use. For example, if I have the 3.8.x.x version of the Linux kernel, how will I know what hardware is supported there. Tools like lspci, lshw, ...
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Kernel does not detect Hardware / Software or Hardware fault
I've got more of a basic question for you:
My linux kernel (I tried several here from stock 2.6, 3.2 and 3.5 as well as a custom 3.7.3 one) does not detect my synaptics touchpad - or I'am too dumb ...
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Installing Linux on an Android netbook
Is it possible to boot Puppy Linux using an USB stick on a netbook running Android, specifically this one: http://amzn.to/VSEJTf?
Is the right kind of BIOS in place that it can boot from USB?
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Overclocking tools in Linux
I am trying to overclock my machine. All the changes are made on the BIOS level, but then one needs to check all the temperatures, voltages, etc and test the stability of the overclock. Most tutorials ...
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Fprintd - How to customize
I'm making a system based on web technologies, which means that my interaction with hardware is very limited (keyboard/mouse).
I would like to modify/write some code/driver that makes my fingerprint ...
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Machine Check Exceptions with Wildcard TE420 and Asus P5N-E SLI
I have been seeing machine check exceptions when trying to call dahdi_cfg (or, sometimes, even on just loading the kernel module) to configure a Digium Wildcard TE420 Quad-Span T1 PCI-E card. Running ...
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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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How to measure light?
I've got a Dell Latitude E6410 notebook which changes lcd light intensity in response to ambient light levels, so it has to have some photocell. How can I access the data from this photocell? I tried ...
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What does “DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space” error mean?
First the link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1060268
Since this affects the kernel and other Distros, what does this type of error mean and why it happens?
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Installing a .ko module on an embedded Linux system that does not support modules
From the answers to this question I have discovered that the embedded Linux distribution provided to me, by my hardware supplier, was not built with kernel support. If I am to use this distribution I ...
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Can hardware be accessed directly from user space?
At work we have some embedded devices controlled by DOS software. I have been tasked with the responsibility of assessing the use of Linux as a replacement OS for DOS on a next generation of hardware. ...
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How to find information about the RAM using the Terminal? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I identify my RAM without shutting down linux?
I need to know it to check the compatibility... I wanna know the type/size/model, etc. Can someone help? Thanks.
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System Management Mode in embedded systems
I wish to install Xenomai which works on Linux providing a kind of hard real time environment.
x86/64 architectures are supposed to contain the "System Management Mode" which prevents them from being ...
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Can I use a parallel port as a CUPS input device?
I have an old piece of a hardware that does diagnostics on medical equipment. It prints out results over a parallel port. Is there any way to have CUPS accept jobs from a parallel port and redirect ...
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How can I reserve a block of memory from the Linux kernel?
I have a device that needs a block of memory that is reserved solely for it, without the OS intervening. Is there any way to tell BIOS or the OS that a block of memory is reserved, and it must not ...
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Mint 12: Can't Get Synaptics Touchpad Disabled
I have tried everything I can find online (including here) and nothing will stick. The touchpad comes back to life after a few seconds. The Windows driver had a disable-entirely option. I do not ...
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Generate a key (number?) based on part of the machine's hardware components
I'm wondering what is the best way to manually generate a hardware key based on certain components of the machine.
Here's the thing: I want only certain type of machines to be able to communicate ...
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listing all hardware details on Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
checking hardware on linux
I want to list all the hardware details about my system. To start with I've following things in my mind.
processor memory bios hba
I've got ...
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No framebuffer device: how to enable it?
I'm trying to make a PCMCIA tuner card work in my headless home server, running Debian Squeeze. Now, as I have very big troubles finding the correct command line to capture, transcode end stream the ...
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How to Determine the Amount of RAM Slots In Use?
I forgot how many RAM modules are installed on my laptop. I do not want to unscrew it but want to look it up on the console. How do I gather this information?
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azap from LinuxTV dvb-apps strange signal behavior with Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950Q
What I want to do
I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950Q USB-TV-Stick. I want to use this stick to successively tune to and read in a certain live TV stream.
What I do
I trigger a scan and save the scan ...
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Sony runs which operating system? Oracle Linux or Crestron Extron or Minix or OS X?
Sony has TV, PlayStation, Camera random hardware's. Where many of those have GUI available too.
I want to run my BASH script there with ncurses.
But how do they drive there devices? Which operating ...
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Does brand/hardware limit the distributions that are safe to run?
I recently tried running Fedora 16 on my laptop and had problems with the fan. In particular, the fan would start, run at full power, and never turn off. I spent a few hours online looking for ...
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How do I display the name of my audio card driver from the command line in Lubuntu 11.10?
I am running Lubuntu 11.10 and I want to display my Audio / Sound Card Driver from the command line.
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Disable detection of certain hardware?
I have a computer with two PCI TV cards. One is Compro (Win friendly), another is Leadtek (Linux friendly). Now, I'm trying to optimize my Ubuntu boot process and I would like to disable detection of ...
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Hardware code(s) from “sensors” command
When running the sensors command in the terminal, the output contains what appears to be some sort of unique identifier for each piece of hardware listed. This is the output, as you can see below, for ...
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Detecting headphone connection/disconnection in Linux
I am trying to detect a signal when a headphone is connected or disconnected from the system.
What is the best way to do this?
If there is a special board with drivers, that will be my preferred ...
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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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What can I use that is small, has linux, an ethernet port, and a hard drive?
I see that David Braben has created a $25 USB stick that can run linux. Check out the website at http://www.raspberrypi.org/
That's not available yet - so what's a low power *nix device that I can ...
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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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Linux compatible motherboard
Where can I find a list with Linux compatible motherboards.
I want all features of the motherboard to work reasonably well with latest valilla Linux kernel (ie, clearly document that I need external ...
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Pluggin a bunch of USB hard drives into a Linux system?
I've got a Linux system with two USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.0 port, and I would like to know how many USB hard drives I could plug into it.
On the performance side, what would the I/O access be like ...
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How to check which GPU is active
I have 2 GPU's in my netbook. How do I know which one I'm actually using at any given moment?
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What determines whether an interrupt is IO-APIC-edge or IO-APIC-level?
Looking at the contents of /proc/interrupts on an x86 Linux, I see that some of the interrupts are IO-APIC-edge while others are IO-APIC-level.
I wonder what determines the interrupt type, is it the ...
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Slow down the CPU
I tried to slow down my CPU with powernowd and cpufreq-selector. I hoped that with lower frequency it will be less hot and I won't hear my fan every time I will run internet radio.
I used the ...
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CentOS 5.6 x86 64 Not seeing all my memory
So I installed CentOS 5.6 on a box at my house and it is not recognizing all my memory. I have 2gb in the machine but when you run a 'free -m' or a 'top' or a 'cat /proc/meminfo' it only shows that ...
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Information about a laptop fan
Can you help me with finding all the hardware information (parameters) and configuration files about the fan in my laptop?
I'm interested of the fan's parameters and configuration files that I can ...
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How to detect memory type under Linux?
Which Linux utility can tell me if I have registered or unbuffered ECC memory in my server? Lshw and dmidecode do not work for me; dmidecode provides no information about registered vs. unbuffered:
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Why does one linux distro run hotter than another on laptop?
I had been using Arch Linux 64 bit on a Gateway P6860FX for about two years, and recently switched to Ubuntu (also 64 bit). When I type on the keyboard, my left hand feels a lot more warmth than ...
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How to check why the cdrom cannot be open exclusively
Sometimes when I try to burn an ISO image, the message that "/dev/sr0" cannot be open exclusively appears. lsof does not shows any program that opens "/dev/sr0" (I checked for aliases too).
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CCD cam to USB - AV grabber for linux
I was wondering if there is an AV Grabber that supports Linux. I have IC-348 model I.C.U (international camera unit) camera made in P.R.C, which uses a Sony CCD 420TVL. I want to grab the video output ...
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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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Compatible Wireless Router? [closed]
I'm looking for a wireless router for personal use. I have a small apartment and need the router primarily for my android phone connection. I might need it for streaming video as well.
I'm running ...
