Getting hardware specifications

Bill Cosby · 09-01-2004, 05:31 AM

Hello everyone,

I hope this is the right forum, well, I installed Slackware 10 on an Acer Aspire 1501 LMi, and I want to recompile a 2.6.7 kernel, so how do I get all the hardware specs in my laptop to know what options I have to use in the kernel conf? I mean my notebook will stay pretty much the same without any hardware altering, so wouldn'nt it be good to compile a kernel with just the options it really needs?
lspci, anything else?
Something like that?

thanks in advance
Bill

Oliv' · 09-01-2004, 09:40 AM

Hi,

Quote:

wouldn'nt it be good to compile a kernel with just the options it really needs?

Of course Yes

Yes, there's lspci and you can have a look in /proc directory... For example /proc/cpuinfo for more info about your CPU or /proc/driver/nvidia... if you own a Nvidia video card...

Oliv'

penguin4 · 09-01-2004, 02:53 PM

billcosby; u can also go to each devices website to acquire specs & more info than what u would need but handy to have any way.