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neilblue n00b
Joined: 11 Jul 2003 Posts: 74
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:33 am Post subject: Hardware detection help please |
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Hello,
I have used a few Linux distros,but I am new to gentoo.
When installing, I would like to see what hardware is being auto detected. Please can anyone tell me if this information is available.
For example:
When I install Mandrake 9.1 it auto detects my video card. Can I do an equivalent thing with Gentoo?
I guess I can, so the question really should be how?
Thanks
Neil |
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seph429 n00b
Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Florida, USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:57 am Post subject: |
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since it installs everything via modules as
lsmod
will show you all the modules loaded, not completely sure how to get hardware name ect |
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neilblue n00b
Joined: 11 Jul 2003 Posts: 74
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Thanks seph429,
That is the approach I have been using so far.
The problem I have found is that I don't know what modules to build to start with, or what hardware to lookup in the xf86config databases.
cheers
Neil |
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