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Offline lkraemer

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hwinfo.tce Extension
« on: March 30, 2009, 09:11:16 PM »
I have installed hwinfo.tce, but I can't find any selection for it in any menu.
Likewise I haven't a clue as to what files, if any can be run from a Terminal
window to access the information added by this extension.  No documentation
can be located for it in the APPS -> INFO window, other than some URL's.

What have I added to my system, and how do I access it?

Thanks.

lkraemer

Offline tobiaus

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Re: hwinfo.tce Extension
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2009, 10:09:39 PM »
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/hwinfo.tce.list says:

opt/fix-acpi-bios.howto
usr/local/sbin/ddcprobe
usr/local/sbin/iasl
usr/local/sbin/parse-edid
usr/local/sbin/dmidecode
usr/local/sbin/ddcxinfo
usr/local/sbin/biosdecode
usr/local/sbin/get-edid

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/hwinfo.tce.info says:

Comments:       This extensions contains various utils
      for dumping hardware info[...] You can use iasl, the Intel ACPI compiler, to check
      if your ACPI bios is faulty (and fix it). Docs on this
      in /opt.

i used sudo su then ran get-edid and biosdecode. perhaps as i'm in qemu it didn't tell me much, but if you haven't used it before, try running dmesg, which is a feature of busybox, and cat /proc/cpuinfo
« Last Edit: March 30, 2009, 10:12:27 PM by tobiaus »

Offline curaga

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Re: hwinfo.tce Extension
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2009, 12:11:14 PM »
If you're looking for an easy GUI to check some hardware info, the "System stats" in the control panel should be helpful.
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