Device Manager on Ubuntu

[NoOp]

On 11/21/2008 07:27 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 11/20/2008 08:28 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
>> 
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> That doesn't sound right. Try this:
>> 
>> sudo lshw > myhardware.txt
>> 
>> and then open myhardware.txt in your favorite text editor or 'cat'.
>> See if lshw is still missing yoiur video card and DVD/CD.
> 
> Even more fun: lshw -html >myhardware.html

Cool! However you should use 'sudo' (sudo lshw -html >myhardware.html)
to ensure that it picks up everything. Yes... I know it's a man page
thing - sorry :-)

man lshw

<quote>
NOTES
       lshw must be run as super user or it will only report partial
information.
</quote>

Also note that lshw does have some documented bugs (from the man page):
<quote>
BUGS
lshw currently does not detect Firewire(IEEE1394) devices.

Not all architectures supported by GNU/Linux are fully supported  (e.g.
CPU detection).

"Virtual"  SCSI  interfaces  used  for  SCSI emulation over IDE are not
reported correctly yet.
</quote>

So it's not perfect, but it does do a pretty nice job. Thanks for the
html tip.