[PLUG] Command line to get list of all hardware/drivers?

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

>> Problem: There is something in this computer that is boogering up 
>> Edgy amd64 so that certain features of OpenOffice.org are not 
>> working. Only OOo is affected. I have tried the live/install CD for 
>> Edgy amd64 and OOo still has exactly the same problems. I also 
>> tried the 32-bit Edgy live/install CD and the problems went away. 
>> It has to be a hardware conflict of some sort in 64-bit Edgy.
>> 
>> I have e-mail addresses for half a dozen other Edgy amd64 users who 
>> have exactly the same set of problems. (We are rare.) I want to 
>> query them and ask them to run a command that will generate a list 
>> of all their hardware. I will also ask some Edgy amd64 users who do 
>> not have the problem to do the same. Then I will compare the lists 
>> to see what the commonalities are. [....]
>> 
> lspci, lsusb, lsscsi, lsmod (the last one is especially meaningful 
> on a distro kernel with lots of kernel features compiled as 
> modules).

dmidecode -- especially for anything associated with your system's 
mainboard: BIOS revision, memory configuration, on-board controllers, 
etc.

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