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Chapter 42. Gathering System Information
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To view the system's partitions and disk space usage in a graphical format, use the System Monitor
tab as shown at the bottom of Figure 42-2.

42.4. Hardware

If you are having trouble configuring your hardware or just want to know what hardware is in your
system, you can use the Hardware Browser application to display the hardware that can be probed.
To start the program from the desktop, select Main Menu Button => System Tools => Hardware
Browser or type
at a shell prompt. As shown in Figure 42-3, it displays your CD-ROM
hwbrowser
devices, floppy disks, hard drives and their partitions, network devices, pointing devices, system de-
vices, and video cards. Click on the category name in the left menu, and the information will be
displayed.
Figure 42-3. Hardware Browser
You can also use the
command to list all PCI devices. Use the command
for more
lspci
lspci -v
verbose information or
for very verbose output.
lspci -vv
For example,
can be used to determine the manufacturer, model, and memory size of a system's
lspci
video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) \
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 Dual Head Max
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]

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