Hardware browser??

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Mon Jun 30 19:10:23 UTC 2008



Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:13:41 -0400, William Case wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Beartooth;
>>
>> I am answering this at the risk of offending you.
>>     
>
> 	On the contrary! Many thanks! 
>
> 	When in doubt, assume I *have* missed something; as the Boomers 
> retire and escape the Gates of Hell, there will be accelerating numbers 
> of people needing the same things -- even when I do know or have seen, as 
> was not the case here. You're a great help!
>  
>   
>> Because of the advice given in response to your original post and
>> wanting a hardware browser myself, I downloaded  and installed lshw-gui.
>> A little confusing at first, the display needs to be better configured.
>>
>> Are you clicking on each of the components to get the details ?
>>
>> (i.e.  It's parts tree is horizontal rather than vertical)
>>     
>
> 	No, in fact I hadn't. I certainly wondered why the display was so 
> sparse, but a horizontal tree is new to me (at least if it's an 
> electronic tree).
>
> 	So I tried lshw, lshw-gui, and lshw-gui &; but no combination of 
> left clicks, right clicks, and hitting enter with either of the latter 
> two got me any more than a tiny yellow box saying "This pane 
> displays .... <whatever>" (I have all machines set to single-click, in 
> case that matters.) And I get that much (more than I had before) just by 
> hovering the cursor.
>
>   

Mine is set to single-click as well but, in this gui, I had to 
double-click the *bold* entries to get down into the meat of the 
information.

Pretty cool tool.

K
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