no hwbrowser for Fedora 12 live-cd

rcmonroig · 08-19-2010, 02:15 PM

I created a Fedora 12 live-usb. Works great. Want to use it to discover hardware compatibility on PC's that are candidate for Linux. I tried to "yum install hwbrowser" while in a live-usb session and I get a message that hwbrowser can't be found. What gives? Is hwbrowser no longer available?

On another machine I ran hwbrowser and found that the answer on the video driver from hwbrowser is different than from the command line.
hwbrowser yields >>>> driver: i915
the answer I received from
the command line interface >>>>> grep Chipset /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>>>> driver: i810

Why the discrepancy?

jefro · 08-19-2010, 02:53 PM

You should be able to install hwbrowser via rpm search.

Not sure why the difference.

fbobraga · 08-19-2010, 03:04 PM

use lshw:

Code:

# lshw -html > pc_hardware_specs.html

Them open the "pc_hardware_specs.html" in any browser

to view the PCI info for the VGA card:

Code:

$ lspci

and look for "VGA" (or use "grep" in the command above)