Chapter 39. Gathering System Information
Figure 39.4. Hardware Browser
The Device Manager application can also be used to display your system hardware. This application
can be started by selecting System (the main menu on the panel) => Administration => Hardware
like the Hardware Browser. To start the application from a terminal, type hal-device-manager.
Depending on your installation preferences, the graphical menu above may start this application or the
Hardware Browser when clicked. The figure below illustrates the Device Manager window.
Figure 39.5. Device Manager
You can also use the lspci command to list all PCI devices. Use the command lspci -v for more
verbose information or lspci -vv for very verbose output.
For example, lspci can be used to determine the manufacturer, model, and memory size of a
system's video card:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 06)
00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 06)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 04)
00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge (rev 50)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller
00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 04)
01:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892P U160/m (rev 02)
01:05.0 RAID bus controller: IBM ServeRAID Controller
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