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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:50 pm    Post subject: [Solved]How to get a specific list of my computer's hardware Reply with quote

The last time I tried Gentoo on well any PC, it didn't turn out well. But this time I have an excuse to try Gentoo again. Drivers for my Logitech mouse bricked Vista. More or less I want to find out what SATA controller I have on my HP xw4100 workstation. According to a "tech" guy at HP it's made by Promise. Well that's not very specific. Any way to find out what specific SATA controller I use?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lspci -vvv or maybe hwinfo
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Exil wrote:
lspci -vvv or maybe hwinfo

-vvv is very verbose output (more than a human could ever use or understand, IMHO). If you're only interested in names/producers, I suggest to start with a simple "lspci". hwinfo is also good, but it may report too much information as well.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would adding a fourth v make it uber verbose? lspci -vvv gave me a lot of info, some of which is the SATA controller. For instance I didn't know Broadcom made my net controller. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, you can actually test it piping the output to wc: "lspci -vvv | wc -l" and then comparing to others. I've just verified and seems like 3 or 4 "v"s do not add nothing to the report:
Code:
fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci | wc -l
19
fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -v | wc -l
170
fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -vv | wc -l
246
fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -vvv | wc -l
246
fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -vvvv | wc -l
246

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lshw is annother option
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmidecode may also have some information. lsusb, lsscsi too.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lspci -vvv gave me what I needed. Thanks. With lspci I found out that the SATA controller was made by Intel, not Promise, so much for tech guys.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Gentoo Chat to Kernel & Hardware.
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