Hardware

Hardware General
To find out which hardware is in front of you, you can use the command hwinfo. For an overview about the options, call hwinfo --help

Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

 * Hardware Compatibility List and Product Reviews (www.linuxquestions.org).
 * Hardware4Linux

Hardware configuration

 * Hardware configuration
 * Automatic Hardware Configuration tools.
 * Linux for Macintosh

Futuristic Hardware

 * Futuristic hardware

Linux On Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs and Mobile Phones

 * Linux Laptop Wiki (www.linlap.com)
 * Linux on Laptops (www.linux-laptop.net)
 * Comprehensive guides to running Linux on various laptop models
 * TuxMobil: Linux On Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs and Mobile Phones (tuxmobil.org)

Processors

 * AMD's processors Athlon, Opteron, AMD64
 * Intel's processors 80486, Pentium
 * Motorola's processors m68k
 * PPC

Input devices

 * Configuring mice (Serial, PS/2, USB)
 * Configuring keyboards
 * eGalax Touchscreen
 * tv cards
 * barcode Scanners

Graphics cards

 * 3D graphics acceleration
 * Installing ATI drivers - Howto on ATI drivers to give you hardware 3d acceleration.
 * Installing NVIDIA drivers - Howto on nVidia drivers to give you hardware 3d acceleration.
 * Installing intel-82865G drivers - How on the intel-82865G video adapter
 * framebuffer device
 * Configuring TV out
 * Using multiple monitors with XFree86
 * Video For Linux
 * Tuning monitor output
 * Matrox TV-out kernel patches

Sound

 * Soundcard
 * Open Sound System
 * Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

Hard drives

 * ATA(IDE) - most common disks used today
 * SCSI - usually found on servers
 * SATA - serial ATA
 * IDE Tree Mapping
 * RAID
 * LVM
 * File Systems

Removable medium

 * ATAPI
 * DVD
 * USB Flash drive
 * floppy disks
 * Music Player

Networking

 * Networking
 * Network device
 * Network SWitch
 * router

Printers

 * Printing
 * Troubleshooting printers

Scanners

 * Scanners
 * BarCode Scanners

Cameras

 * WebCams
 * Digital Cameras
 * CamCorders

Busses

 * PCI
 * PCI-X
 * PCI-E
 * AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port. Interface for display cards.
 * Firewire (400 and 800)
 * USB - Universal Serial Bus
 * IDE bus / ATA and ATAPI - used to connect hard drives
 * PCMCIA - laptops addon cards
 * IR - Irda (www.irda.org) infrared ports
 * ISA
 * EISA - turbocharged ISA implementation common in early 1990s PCs
 * VESA Local Bus - on most 486 computers and a few Socket 4 Pentiums

Power Management

 * ACPI
 * APM

Tools/Tips

 * lspci
 * lsusb
 * lsscsi
 * proc - kernel handles about your system status
 * cpuinfo - kernel handle about your CPU type and features
 * hwinfo - get system info about your monitor or mouse type etc.
 * dmidecode - read out your bios, e.g. computer type or support tag
 * lm-sensors - CPU temperature, fan speed etc.
 * kinfocenter - list of your hardware, e.g. usb media
 * top - load of your hardware, top CPU consuming processes
 * ksysguard - comprehensive overview about system load and much more
 * xosview - lean overview about system load, network e.a.
 * vmstat - system load, swapping etc. over a time frame
 * Hotplugging hardware
 * Quieting linux

= See also =
 * areas
 * Hardware compatibility list by the [[SUSE] community]