Device Manager on Ubuntu

[Ray Parrish]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Thu, 11/20/08, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
>> Subject: Re: Device Manager on Ubuntu
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 9:04 AM
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Does Ubuntu has tool similar to "Device
>>>>         
>> Manager" on Vista, so that I
>>     
>>>> can see what devices are available on a given
>>>> machine running Ubuntu.
>>>> <snip> 
>>>>         
>> Or else, how about "Device Manager" :-)  Comes in
>> both kde 
>> (kde-hal-device-manager) and gnome (probably - I'm
>> making a wild guess - 
>> gnome-hal-device-manager) flavors.
>> -- 
>> derek
>>
>>
>>     
> Just installed the above for kicks. Nice, but has a lot of "unknow" in the device tab and a little more in the advanced tab. Is there some trick to load the info detail for the manager. IMHO, lshw gives much more detail.
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>
>   
I tried that lshw command, and it misses my video card and my DVD/CD RW 
drive.  I get pretty good output from lspci -b -v but it still misses my 
CD drive.

Later, Ray Parrish

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