Updating to 15.04

[Bruce Marshall]

On 04/04/2015 02:49 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> bmarsh at bmarsh.com wrote:
>> There used to be a nifty program called "hwinfo" but for some reason
>> they removed it.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a similar program?
> I don't know "hwinfo" but how about "lshw"? OTOH I don't know if that is
> also removed from 15.04 (I'm still using 14.04).
>
>
> Nils
>
>

I just got  "hwinfo"  to work on 15.04  (and I've had it working on 
older releases as well)  by copying 3 files.

Will be happy to send those files to anyone that is interested. (this 
was on a 64 bit machine)

Sample output for graphics:

Konsole output
hwinfo --gfx

  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: VCu0.Bjtk0E1veY9
  Parent ID: _Znp.KH_x94ezG+8
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia VGA compatible controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0641
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nouveau"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xa800-0xa87f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xfe880000-0xfe8fffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 28 (204647 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000641sv00000000sd00000000bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidiafb"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: nouveau is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #30





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