Hi Beartooth; I am answering this at the risk of offending you. On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:16 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:36:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 18:44 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> Fedora always used to have a hardware browser; for a while it had > >> two, one with endless cryptic detail, and one highly simplified. > >> > >> Now I find neither. Has it (or have they) been renamed? Can I add > >> it with yum? Some other way? > >> > >> > > yum install lshw-gui > > > > should see you sorted. > > Hmm ... Neat name, impressive command; but is there a way to make > it usable by subtechnoids? Can I pipe the -xml or -html options into a > browser, for instance? Or something into baobab for it to use as labels? > > Most recent example : I got the livna display configuration kmod- > nvidia stuff, and it helped; but it didn't tell me whether to use the > nvidia configurator or the livna one, or both; and the livna page warned > me that I might have any of several cards. > > I'd like to check that last, and tackle it again. One of the old > hardware browsers, iirc, would have enabled even me to find out what > video card I have. (An electronic friend is kind enough to assemble > machines to meet my budget, every year or three; but I never needed to > know one video card from another -- till I got this blankety-blank new > monitor ...) > Because of the advice given in response to your original post and wanting a hardware browser myself, I downloaded and installed lshw-gui. A little confusing at first, the display needs to be better configured. Are you clicking on each of the components to get the details ? (i.e. It's parts tree is horizontal rather than verical) Sorry to take up your time, if you already understood this. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
