[Sussex] establishing system spec - applications ??

[Geoffrey Teale]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:09, John D. wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> is there an application that will identify bits of hardware in my system
> rather than having to pull it apart too find out what some (preferably
> all) the components are?

Short answer, yes, many.  KDE has something built into the control center.  

> I'm trying to suss the graphics card specifically as I've been thinking
> of upgrading. As far as I can establish, it's an AGP x2 generic Nvidia
> geforce 4 mx 420. though when I check out AGP, it appears that it may,
> or may not be backwards compatible in respect of the type of slot and
> the operating voltage - cos theres little point getting something "off
> the shelf" if it's not going to work.

A combination of:

lspci

and:

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

... should give you as much information as you're likely to get.

> Any other info that I can get on the system (again, preferably as much
> as possible) would be excellent for further reference.

Well..   most everything you're every going to be able to find out can be 
found under /proc in the filesystem.  Learning to read it all is somewhat of 
a challenge however.

-- 
Geoffrey Teale
Free Software Foundation