[Sussex] establishing system spec - applications ??

[John D.]

Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> 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.
Righty ho!

Thanks for that Geoff.

If nothing else, it'll get me going on the "graphics mission". Then I 
can worry about learning to decypher the info in the /proc later.

regards

John D.