Re: Good hardware info util (for bug reports)?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:55:27 +0100 (GMT)


On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Has anyone come across a good Linux app that will collect useful info
> about the system hardware, and put it into a nice summary? Something
> like SYSINFO or MS Diag from the DOS world.

Red Hat ships:
$ rpm -qi rhs-hwdiag
Name : rhs-hwdiag Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 0.36 Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 1 Build Date: Mon Apr 12 23:27:55 1999
Install date: Sun May 16 17:15:10 1999 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
Group : Applications/System Source RPM: rhs-hwdiag-0.36-1.src.rpm
Size : 76886 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Software <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://www.redhat.com/~msf/#hwdiag
Summary : Red Hat utilities for probing and diagnosing system hardware.
Description :
The rhs-hwdiag package contains the Red Hat Hardware Discovery
Tools. These tools probe the serial and parallel ports on your
system, and are useful for finding and reporting hardware errors
to Red Hat support if you're having problems. These tools could
cause adverse side-effects in some situations, so you should use
them carefully.

though it's not very comprehensive.

ISTR that someone from SGI was writing an "hinv" for Linux.

Matthew.

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