From only the login prompt, can you tell what the FSB is? Like if it's 500mhz or 800mhz?

I'm guessing the answer is no. Can I tell the motherboard type? probably not.....

you'll have to modify the login. see for getty/mgetty. and get the desired values via a script to pass it to the login - see login/issue.
it's sure possible. but a little wrk has do be done :-)

sl mritch

Well I meant, like is there a command I can type to tell me the FSB level? Or a file somewhere that says so?

dmesg | grep bus

-Joey

dmesg | grep bus
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
..... host bus clock speed is 199.0470 MHz.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfba64, last bus=2
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5

199 mhz???! that can't be right, this is a brand new pentium IV 2.8 machine.

also am I correct that that ide: line means that it's running in 33mhz mode? will anything go nuts if I bump that up to 66?

It goes up from 33 to 133 after the kernel is done loading.

200 sounds about right for a P4 2.8
-Joey

Are you asking about the mobo or the CPU? Do you know the model number you can probably just Google for it, and you're bound to find a listing of its technical specs.

I'm going to disagree with joey.dale about a P4 2.8. I bought a P4 2.4 B and it's got a 533 FSB, so if you've got a new P4 2.8 then just like you did, I would guess that it's either 533 or 800. Apart from being a great vendor, there's a ton of techical info about individual components over at www.newegg.com You might want to poke around there. -- J.W.

Thanks JW, yea I am talking about mobo. I know it's either 533 or 800 and I'm trying to figure out which. I don't have the model number unfortunately, then it'd be easy. It's a dell machine, but I don't know what model (it's a webserver I'm renting).

You can get some pieces of information by typing "cat /proc/cpuinfo". Then look at the data sheets for the processor. The /proc directory is where you can get other information but not so deep as what BIOS ID the motherboard has or how fast the FSB is going. You can get information what chipset the system is using although the kernel have to have product ID and vendor ID already updated before it can recognize the components correctly. This means editing a file in the kernel source code or downloading the latest kernel and then compile it.