how to check the hardware info

rehan999 · 02-10-2009, 03:08 AM

Good Morning

I have a machine which is installed with linux operating system and has the harware mentioned below.

1) 2-quad core processors 8- CPU’s
2) 16GB RAM and
3) Nvidia FX5600 graphics card.

Can anyone please give me the commands to make sure that machine has the above harware.

Thanks and Regards
Rehan.

repo · 02-10-2009, 03:14 AM

install the lshw command
in debian:

Code:

aptitude install lshw

tuttu22 · 02-10-2009, 03:22 AM

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

twantrd · 02-10-2009, 03:32 AM

1. cat /proc/cpuinfo (as mentioned by tuttu22)
2. cat /proc/meminfo
3. lspci

-twantrd

salasi · 02-11-2009, 05:17 AM

As the 'best' way to this is distro dependant, please give the name of your distro.

monsm · 02-11-2009, 06:08 AM

and

Code:

dmesg

to see if the devices gets initialised.

Mons