Device Manager on Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Ray Parrish wrote:

> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>> --- On Thu, 11/20/08, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

>>>> Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Does Ubuntu has tool similar to "Device
>>>>> Manager" on Vista, so that I
>>>>>         
>>> 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.
>>>     
>> 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.

Oh.  That would be a bug...  I've used it before, and it looked right.  
I brought it up before making that post, and just glanced at it - the 
left pane is right, but I never noticed the right pane is pure garbage.

> 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.

I don't think a CD drive _should_ show in lspci - after all, it isn't a 
PCI device, though it will hang off a bus that is itself a PCI device.
-- 
derek