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

[Ted Gould]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:17 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.

Oh!  I didn't know that, I've never noticed anything missing in HAL,
what am I missing?

		--Ted