Setting Up Hardware Components With Yast; Probing Your Hardware - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

Setting Up Hardware
Components with YaST
YaST allows you to configure hardware items at installation time as well as in the in-
stalled system. Configure additional graphics cards and monitors, adjust mouse and
keyboard settings and configure sound hardware. If you need printer or scanner support,
use the appropriate YaST modules to configure these hardware items. Learn which
hardware components are connected to your computer by using the YaST Hardware
Information module.

5.1 Probing Your Hardware

Use YaST, if you want to know more about your hardware or if you need to find out
details like vendor and model of a certain hardware to be able to properly configure it.
Here and in the following sections we assume that you already started YaST (for exam-
ple, by pressing Alt + F2 and entering kdesu yast2 (KDE) or gnomesu yast2
(GNOME) followed by the root password, because YaST needs system administrator
permissions to change the system files):
1 In YaST click Hardware > Hardware Information. Hardware probings starts
immediately and it will take some time until you see the hardware information
tree in a separate window.
2 In the hardware information tree recursively click on the plus icons to expand
the information about a specific device.
3 Click Close to leave the hardware information overview.

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