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neilblue
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:33 am    Post subject: Hardware detection help please Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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Neil
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