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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