[NTLUG:Discuss] The Linux capability that reveals your system

[Chris Cox]

Ted Gould wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 18:46 -0600, Allen Meyers wrote:
>> I do not need a windows control panel but would be nice to get a glimpse of
>> system and possibly a clone for device manager, Please do not tell me I need
>> to reinstall windows
> 
> HAL contains all of the information that you're looking for.  That's the
> hardware abstraction layer.  A tool that I like to view HAL is
> gnome-device-manager.  If you're more of a commandline type of guy you
> can just do lshal and you'll get more data than you wanted :)  lshal
> does have filters if you read the man page.

hal is an abstraction.  A layer.  But, when available, it's fairly
complete... but not necessarily complete.

Just fyi.

I like hwinfo under openSUSE.

In KDE, you can try kinfocenter (for something Window-ish).

Also, you can get some of the data that's in hwinfo via
dmidecode... but hwinfo should be more complete.

Just some ideas...

Hal isn't a bad place... and if you're using Gnome, there is
a graphical viewer for the hal data (it's not very graphical
though... not that any of these are).